Hunting and Gatherings...a Rowing Craft...and a vest from JL Powell

From American Traders

"The Skylark is the the perfect small rowing craft.Comfortably sized to fit up to three adults, this beautiful boat has a unique triple-keel design that helps it track superbly. The Skylark comes with two sets of brass oar sockets, one pair spruce spoon blade oars and a set of pinned oar locks (leathers are an option); cherry trim, seats, and wide, fan-shaped stern backrest that looks and feels fantastic. As versatile as it is beautiful, the Skylark is a hit with sportsmen as well as the recreational rower. 

And if you prefer not to row, the Skylark’s square stern allows for a max 4HP gas motor (or any size electric trolling motor) to be mounted."

(Photo by Tavarua)

One of my favorite vests is a JL Powell made of lamb skin leather and British Millerain waxed cotton - I have been using a lot of clothing from JLP during my travels on the African continent as well as in the Middle East, Europe, the Caribbean/West Indies an the Americas. Good quality and JLP does not mass produce...  

Vest - JL Powell 

Leather case and travel flasks from - Smythson

"A Horse is Poetry in Motion"

"Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride,

Friendship without envy,

Or beauty without vanity?

Here, where grace is served with muscle

And strength by gentleness confined

He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity.

There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent.

There is nothing so quick, nothing more patient.
All our history is in his industry.
We are his heirs, he our inheritance."

- Ronald Duncan

 "The Horse," 1954

Hunting and Gatherings...

(Veruschka 1968 by Franco Rubartelli)

Armed and Fabulous...

It all has to fit in her travel luggage:

Travel luggage from Italy and Emmebi

More from Emmebi

Mulholland Brothers backpack - waxed canvas

For the evening in front of the campfire - scarf from H&H

For Her - LV Hammock for the campsite

and blanket

Bracelets in Sterling Silver and Gold by Silversmith Charlie Pattison

For Her - Vintage Sterling Silver and Ivory Ring

For Her - Ed Wiener Sterling Bracelet from 1948

For Her - Cape Horn Skull in Sterling Silver from Artist Mike Barlow

Again the elegance from a true adventurer and artist
AP McGEE - Sterling Silver Crocodile bone bracelet
http://www.kurtzandmarlow.com/

"Cast from the bones taken from a small juvenile Croc that died during the dry season. This bracelet is solid silver and retains all the imperfections of the original bones, poured in wax molds these exoskeleton bones lie just under the skin of each ridge on their body,  (There are corresponding bone segments each having a match opposite the centerline on the back of a Crocodile). These are matched up and fused together in wax form before being cast."

Sons of Savages

For Her - Vintage Lizard Bracelet from Hermès 

For Her - Necklace from Holland & Holland

Inkwell from Hermès for your campaign desk

Bring a Journal - Hermès 

Classical and ugly... but we love them - Courteney boots from Westley Richards in Ostrich.
Usually handmade from Cape Horn Buffalo skin with impala skin lining.

Gloves from H&H

Sterling silver Boar inkwell with engraved hunting scene.

One of your family seals - Does anyone still write letters?

The Hunters and the Hunted...

Lion dreams...by Tavarua

"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."

- Anais Nin

Cigars: A. Fuente - Hemingway Short Story...

(All Photos by Tavarua)

 A Perfecto cigar from A. Fuente - Gran Reserva - The Hemingway line dedicated to "the Old Man and the Sea"

The perfect flavors of roasted and toasted nuts, grass, and some spice all blend together rather well. 

 Mild/Medium bodied cigar - Dominican - Cameroon wrapped.

A nice body of smoke.

A refined and delicious little cigar.

Quiet Desperation...

 An old book had a message... from the book i was ready to read this evening ...

 out fell an old newspaper clip ... like a tree shed its leaves ... now it rested peacefully on my faded Westley Richards.

I picked it up and read...

Family Archives...

(All photos from the family archives)

I was born into a rather eccentric family. You do not choose your family. Depending upon how we are brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

Ancestors stretch behind a man and his nature like a fan and these men and women possessed plenty of character of one sort or another.  We turn around to see their faces fading into history.



 "Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds.  The most powerful ones are those we cannot even describe, aren't even aware of."

"I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those companions whithout whom no journey can yield us anything."

- Lawrence Durrell

Friends...

(Photo by Tavarua)

“Faithful friends are gifts from heaven - Whoever finds one has found a treasure.”

Prince Fahad Bin Sultan Falcons Center...Riyadh

(Photo by Unknown)

Prince Fahad Bin Sultan

(All Photos below by Tavarua)

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X - Ray

Spare wings for repair

Drinking Arabic coffee and watching  a film from Prince Fahads hunting expedition (falconry)  in Pakistan - 2012.