Hunting the Swamp Antelope
WHEN PEOPLE HEAR about swamps, they usually envisage stagnant, muddy, smelly and shallow water, covered in papyrus and other water plants. This is not so with the swamps in Botswana and Zambia.. The water is clear and mostly drinkable, with sandy surrounds and flowing channels meandering through the area.
In Zambia, hunting around and in the swamps along the Kafue River and around Lake Bangweulu is entirely different from conventional hunting and is a wonderful experience. At Lochinvar on the Kafue River floodplains, the Kafue lechwe occurs, and at Lake Bangweulu, the black lechwe. These are the only places in Africa where these species occur naturally. The Kafue lechwe is an isolated offshoot of the red lechwe and grows larger horns than the other subspecies. The black lechwe is not actually black.
