posted on October 26, 2006 03:25:47 PM new
This is completely off topic, but I was going through some photos of the safari I took with my family this summer, and thought a couple might be of general interest.
I also want to recommend that, if it is at all possible for you to save your nickels and dimes and go to such a place (in this case Mala Mala in South Africa), I cannot think of a better trip to make. It was awesome from beginning to end. You are within 10 feet of all sorts of animals (the only important one we missed was a hippo, which we only saw from 200 yards away).
Anyway, to show the range of cute to ferocious, here are two:
posted on October 26, 2006 03:49:48 PM new
Great photos! I listed a postcard of a man's tribute to himself - a museum loaded with stuffed animals - lions, tigers, elephants, rhinos that he bravely shot. So much nicer to shoot with a camera!
... and you get to shoot an animal dozens of times with a camera, but only once with a gun
Between the two kids, my wife, and me, we took something around 4000 photos on our trip. With digital it's so easy to keep shooting (my camera, for example, can take 2.5 photos per second) and then search for the keepers when you get home. I off-loaded full memory cards onto a USB-based drive which holds 20 Gig during the trip.
posted on October 26, 2006 07:31:57 PM new
I'm afraid that mine is more gory. I didn't know whether to let my 8 and 10 year old watch, but they seemed to know their limits themselves. They stopped looking at a point where it became really gruesome, and I myself stopped not much later than that. We were there for the kill, but not the catch, which is lucky because wart hogs make a lot of noise, which I don't think anyone in the family was going to cope with.
[ edited by pixiamom on Oct 26, 2006 03:52 PM ]
