I'm standing on ... I can't even remember the name of the island in the Ssese Islands in Lake Victoria. It's an archipelago of about 30 islands all covered in rainforest. Some are inhabited, some are not. We're on the biggest island right now staying at a beautiful, but tiny little lodge here. It's very, very primitive.

Three Days Later ...
Finally today I saw a sitatuunga for the first time! It came out at 130 yards and fed for about 20 minutes out in front of me in an opening. It was a young male. I could have shot it easily. We video'd it; I took pictures of it, but it wasn't a fully mature sitatunga, so I didn't take the shot. Pretty tough hunting so far, but really a neat place and good people. Also found out about two local delicacies here. There are some big giant worms that grow in the palm trees that these people just chow down on. I'm going to try to collect some of those and see if we can't eat them.

Other than that we're running out of time ... Normally, this should be a 14-day hunt, but I'm trying to do it in a week!

The Next Day ...
Beautiful day today. We went to another island. The new (sitatunga tracking) dogs came in today ... three blueticks from South Africa. The other morning we tried to go to the other island, but the boat wouldn't go. It konked out on Lake Victoria. We had to go rescue the guys in that boat in pretty high seas ... two boats, had to transfer everything from one boat to the other, pretty hairy stuff. We put the dogs out, they howled on the trail of what we can only assume was a sitatunga, but we never saw anything. We've got a local dance group coming to give us a singy songy dance thing tonight. Went after the worms first thing this morning. They're the size of your thumb. We only found three, but the other guys found like 100. Tonight we're going to fry them up and eat them!

Only two days left to get the first Ssese Island sitatunga in more than 40 years!!!