It's our wet season at present. There's lots of water, monsoonal thunderstorms, heat and humidity, horse flies that nearly take your arm off, and spear grass with seeds that try to skewer you. There's the odd animal about, though they are spread-out due to the abundance of food and water, so encountering a feral is a matter of chance. We have found a few, but have not as yet been able to put any on the ground. However, we like to head into the bush to see what we can find, and do some stump-shooting on the termite mounds. I hope you enjoy some of the assorted photographs I've collected so far this year.

Some nature photographs:

Bower bird nest
 

Flowers on a tree
 

A fungus on a tree
 

A tata lizard

Walking and searching:

 

 

Stump-shooting:

thanks - enjoyed the pics.  

rusty

Defeated termite mounds:

Embarrassing moments when trees jump out in front of your arrow:

Some swine-sign and donkey-sign:

awesome stuff Ben id love to go hunt up there with you some time,

you guys loose many arrows in that long grass? i was shooting today but instead of grass and termite mounds i had very frozen stumps and 2 feet of snow     :D      

Stalks and failed attempts, or, close but not close enough:

Nice pics...atleast it's not 30 below

jer bear

Thanks, fellows. I'm glad you liked them. Andy, we haven't actually lost any arrows yet, as we search around for them until we find them. But we have broken four or five on rocks when we've missed the termite mounds.

By the way, in one of the stalking photographs there is an antilopine walleroo pictured. This was part of a sequence that I took of my mate trying to stalk the little buffalo; we had to be careful not to spook the 'roos. We do not, and are not permitted to, hunt native wildlife with bows in Australia.

Cheers,

Ben

Cool pics! It looks like those termite mounds were made for stump shooting.

Thanks mate, I'm home in a week and sure am missing being there on Australia Day.


ak.

Great pics..thanks for sharing.

Loved the photos.    

Great pictures Ben!

ben...thanks for sharing. Those termite mounds look huge....is 53# enough for them?......

yeah, nothin quite like the wet season. looks like you guys have gone troppo! good fun no doubt!    can't remember his name but it looks like old mate who used to shoot the gamemaster is fully hooked. longbow now. making me a bit homesick.

BTW stumping with an 80# recurve, thats hard work!

Great pictures Ben,  are those termite mounds hard on the arrows?