Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Darwin Award Candidates, eh? On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Doug Herr > <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: > > Marty Deveney wrote: > >> It's not that unsafe to be on your feet in the bush in Africa. > > I suspect the guides (and parks) who insist on staying in the vehicle > have had too many bad experiences with guests who don't have any "bush > smarts". > > I am sure that this is the case, but even if you have no background in > looking at animals, if you listen and are at least moderately adaptive > you can learn. The few stolidly stupid or conscientiously ignorant > people who get eaten, however, are enough to give a guiding service a > bad name. Luckily for the guides liability laws are fairly lax in > most African countries. > > Marty > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Bob Adler Redwood City, CA http://www.rgaphoto.com