Mauser, modelo argentino 3/8/2011

Today no drives, just walking with Mboma, a Tanapa ranger to check the trails we will walk soon.Woke up early morning as usual, checked the rifle, put it back in the bag, took Mboma and the car and drove little bit from camp towards Mbagi. After one km we stopped and after loading the rifle and making it safe we started walking. We walked up on the ridge all the way to the end of sokwe forest where we previously arranged the meeting point with Saidi. It was a nice walk we got ellies twice. Then we crossed the river and we went on the northern side, we walked up towards the escarpment and then west trying to avoid the thickest stuff. We walked some really dodgy area, with visibility closer then three meters and eventually we reached some big boulders form where we started descendìing towards the end of the second mbagi forest. We got ellies twice again and also two enormous black mambas probably mating.After this we drove towards Mwayembe stopped a couple of km and walked back to the source of the Mwagusi river.Back to camp we had a rest and in the afternoon we walked from camp down towards east of Lulenga juu, we wento all the way to the river and then cut west towards that area. The bush was again to thick but nontheless we tried our best. We stick to the more open area close to the river because inside it was not passable, but even so it was difficult and after few hundreds meters a breeding herd scattered in front of us blocked our way. we had to go back and get to Lulenga juu walking basically on the road. Also here we got elephants, 4 times for a change. The good thing was that out of 8 elephants sightings not even once the ellies saw us.I really liked the ranger's rifle, a proper old thing, a mauser, the writings said, modelo argentino 1909.