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bigloo
11-03-2009, 03:14 PM
Welp, almost. Sitting here in MSP waiting on a connecting flight for 9 hrs.

I have just returned from 5 weeks in South Africa. 11 of these days I spend on Safari in the Kruger National Park. I spend many of a day smoking a cigar while I watched animals graze 30 feet away! I saw a hyena kill a baboon next to my car, 4 cheetah hunt (and get to full speed)... best safari of my life! Enjoy my pictures linked below.

BTW, I smoked a ton of NC. I saw no reason to take CC to South Africa, although cigars are about 5-10x more expensive in South Africa for both CC and NC so I am glad I took 40 with me as I refused to pay that much. All the sticks I took were top shelf (opus, davidoff, padron 26/64, Anejo, etc). Every night I waited for the sun to start to set and lit up with either Johnny Blue or Glenmorangie. Great trip, cannot wait to go again.


http://picasaweb.google.com/lshifren/KrugerParkOctober2009#

Steve
11-03-2009, 03:17 PM
Looks like a great trip!

:tu:ss

Scottw
11-03-2009, 03:17 PM
Unbelievable pics Lucian, glad you enjoyed it! It looks incredible.

Blindjimme
11-03-2009, 03:25 PM
Wow, wonderful pics Lu. Great memories there :tu










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safariguy
11-03-2009, 05:04 PM
I like safaris, obviuosly. Glad you had a good time. Welcome back.

bvilchez
11-03-2009, 05:15 PM
Awesome pics!!!!! Looks like a great time

timo
11-03-2009, 05:27 PM
My wife says,what are you looking at? I said pictures from a safari that one of the cigar forum guys went on. She says HE TOOK those pictures. Yep! Great pictures I thought I was looking at National Geographic

bigloo
11-03-2009, 05:56 PM
Thanks guys... a 500mm lens does wonders on Safari, so does a 11MP camera and photoshop to crop away the unwanted stuff. My rule of thumb was to take 5-10 pictures and then keep the best one, digital cams make everyone a better photographer!

Darrell
11-03-2009, 05:59 PM
So I will assume your sex change went off without a hitch?













Don't think you get to bastardize all my threads and I won't get you back.

Steve
11-03-2009, 06:01 PM
Thanks guys... a 500mm lens does wonders on Safari, so does a 11MP camera and photoshop to crop away the unwanted stuff. My rule of thumb was to take 5-10 pictures and then keep the best one, digital cams make everyone a better photographer!

:tu:tu

Back in the day when I was doing photography, I would have shoot about 500 rolls of film, and probably not ended up with that many keepers! TGFD!

icehog3
11-03-2009, 09:46 PM
Welcome home, Lu, and thanks for the awesome pics! :tu

Lobo
11-03-2009, 09:54 PM
I am excruciatingly envious...... Thats what I call livin life !!!!

CasaDooley
11-03-2009, 11:30 PM
Great pics Lu! Glad yer back bro!:ss