Great day today ... we went out early in the pitch black to try to get between the hippos and the water, but they were already in the water, so we went off walking through the swamps looking for buffalo.

We were down a lot of times crawling through on our hands and knees through these tiny little holes, tunnels, through the vegetation. I can't even describe how thick it is, and all of a sudden there was crashing alongside us, so we were a little spooked. We came out and found a herd of buffalo.

We were probably within 180 yards of that herd; four big bulls out off to the side were bedded, but then the wind changed and that entire herd took off. We saw some others in the distance so we sneaked through the swamp again in a different direction. Definitely heebie jeebied right out, spooky stuff, you know they're in there and you can hear them crashing off right beside you, but you can't see anything.

Luckily, nothing came at us, then all of a sudden we were within 80 yards of a herd of maybe 15 buffalo with two big bulls. One started walking by us, and the other two followed, and I nailed the biggest one ... a huge Nile buffalo. We gave him an hour, followed blood about 50 yards into the swamp and found him ... fantastic ... got him out and this evening went out for hippos.

We waited right by the river to try to get some hippos coming out, but none did. Just before dark they did, then all of a sudden there was a bellow from a buffalo as we were walking back. He charged after we had passed, but when the trackers were in line with him behind us. The only thing that saved them was a ditch between them and him. Otherwise he would have killed one of them for sure. We got out of the swamp, and that buffalo followed us all the way around and bluff-charged again. He was limping and probably wounded by a poacher.

We're going to go back in the morning for hippos, but are going to wait til light in case that wounded buffalo is there again.

The Next Day ...

Incredible day today. We got up in the pitch dark, even though we were going to wait until light. We got braver overnight ... Last night it rained a lot. We sneaked down past the crazy buffalo swamp, down to the hippo river ... nothing big where we were, but we saw three that we thought were pretty good farther away.

So we ran all the way around the end of a big swamp and back to the river. The first of the three hippos was not big enough, so we kept sneaking along, looking for the other two. All of a sudden one of them appeared 17 yards away, and he was a giant. He came out, and I shot him ... brain shot ... dead instantly. Fantastic footage, all of it on camera, two cameras.

We started walking out, shaking hands, yeah, talking excitedly and smiling, and all of a sudden the one hippo that we hadn't accounted for came out, and Jason just yelled, "Run!" All of us turned and took off getting out of there, out of the way of the hippo, and then he went right by us where we had been standing. Great footage, scared the heck out of us.

We came back to camp, and the airplane came in and flew us along the Sudanese border to a different area of Ethiopia called the Sala area. Went out this evening and got an oribi antelope. Tomorrow we are after Newman's hartebeest. This is the only place in the world where can hunt them, and there are only 5 tags per year. HOT here, boiling hot. We're staying in tents. Stay tuned for more!