Gemsbok came to visit

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Alfred Boehme

January 21, 2008, 08:31:02 PM
Gemsbok in garden don't leave the gate open

Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)

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January 21, 2008, 08:46:01 PM
With evedince like this, Alfred, how can anybody say that gemsbok did not volunteer to be your next picture to post in "My braai meat"?  It would obviously be pic.1 & 2 & 3  -  ad infinitum, but we won't mind      :ciupa1:


Should have posted it in the joke corner with a topic like "My uncle Gemmie, the old goat, came to visit"

Great stuff.  I remember my dad and Piet Steyn once (after a hellava braai and a few stiff doppe) tried to catch a gemsbok in our yard - 63-1st ave - , but in their none to sober state of minds, they eventually realized that you do NOT try to handle a gemsbok as you would any other billy goat.  My mom's rose garden also was'nt the same after that and they had to fend her off as well  -  verbal attack like none!
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Michael Alexander

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January 21, 2008, 08:48:21 PM
When was that pic taken? The fences look like the old style fences.....

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barb (Fry)

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January 21, 2008, 08:56:32 PM
In the 70's I don't recall Gemsbokke being a regular sight during the daylight, if seen it was on the outskirts, like the putting green (practice range).  It was a night that they visited the green grass and made us carry stones in our pockets on the way home from the youth club.
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Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)

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January 21, 2008, 09:05:58 PM
I have never tried to throw a stone at a gemsbok myself, but according to the "experts", it's sort of mission impossible to hit a gemsbok with a stone, for apparently they hit it away with their horns.  Must be in broad daylight then, I suppose, 'cos I don't think their eyes are like those of nocternal animals.  Don't know  -  you lot who has maybe done the test or has had to use this self defence method can give us more info on the subject. 
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. Friendship is a sheltering tree.

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of other cannot keep it from themselves.

Michael Alexander

#5
January 22, 2008, 07:57:09 PM
I don't know about stones, but I threw Michele at a gemsbok one night and he just threw her right back......

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Alfred Boehme

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January 22, 2008, 08:10:50 PM
This pic was taken Sep 2006 my baby girl used to walk up to the gemsbok and want to stroke it I had to stop her on numerous times our fences are still the same

Alfred
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