KWANDO INDABA JANUARY 2011
The year 2010 has been and we at KWANDO are thankful for a successful hunting and
touring season. We met wonderful new hunters and tourists and we say thank you to
all our hunting friends that returned to Africa to enjoy the hospitality of my people,
the diversity of our nature and the amount of different species that we are blessed
with. I am also very humble and thankful, not only for the Kwando successes in the
hunting field, but also for the accident free season. We work, not only with dangerous
weapons, but also with dangerous game and one bad incident can ruin an entire safari.
I also want to thank my dear wife, Charma, for the excellent job she does on the
catering, planning and administrative sections of this outfit. To my very able professional
hunters, a great thank you.
KWANDO will be in the USA from 13 – 25 January 2011 and you can contact us on Mobile
# 402 312 6598
We will be in Omaha Nebraska from 13 to 17 January and will attend the SCI expo
14 – 15 January. We then move on to Fort Wayne, Auburn and LaOtto, Indiana and then
on to Louisville, Kentucky before flying back to South Africa.
Charma and I wish you and your families a prosperous New Year and may God bless
you with good health and happiness during 2011.
Herewith a shortened “thank you” letter we received from a very special client (who
became a good friend) after his last visit to KWANDO SAFARIS in 2010
Bruce Barhydt (Tel 260-570-6025) wrote:
“…..As always, after a trip to my other home country (South Africa), photos must
be printed and put in an album for friends and co-workers to see. Digital images
fly thru the Internet to friends back in Indiana, and children in Colorado and Florida.
Lots of questions about the caracal and many questions asked about the porcupine,
the hybrid (Red Hartebeest/Blesbuck) and some folks know about the Common Springbuck
but did not know about the Black, White and Copper colour mutations. Same with the
Reedbuck and Mountain Reedbuck
They were all surprised to learn about a working butchery on the farm. I'm not sure
where they thought meat came from, plastic wrapped from the market in town I guess,
but surely not a farm, and not a butchery right there on the farm. From hoof to
package to freezer in a 150 foot space. Clean and neat.
And then someone ask me a question I wasn't ready for. They wanted to know what it
was like to live like that, like a South African, for 4 weeks. And I started to
give them my usual answer, that it was great being over there, that we're always
treated like family and I could move there and love it. Then it occurred to me that
for 4 weeks I had been living the life I had told my guidance counsellor as a freshman
in high school (9th grade) that I wanted to live all along. I wanted to do something
that put me outside with wildlife everyday, were I could guide hunters, cull herds
(a word foreign to him), teach young shooters, and help people learn about the outdoors.
You guys allowed me to experience the job I have been looking for my whole life.
It wouldn't even be fair to call it a job because it was one of the most rewarding
experiences of my life. Getting up every day to go outside and do something that
effects the wildlife in any country is a special privilege, but to do it in a country
as special as South Africa, that's a whole 'nother thing. I am so blessed to have
friends like you. Thank you so much for October!”
Regards to all!
Pierre and Charma
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