{"id":1784,"date":"2025-11-20T17:13:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:40:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:40:37","slug":"the-slade-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/20\/the-slade-group\/","title":{"rendered":"The SLADE GROUP."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Slade’s from North Carolina, Eric and Joanna, their daughters Kathleen and Savannah, their friends Lance Legget and Daniel Westmoreland from North Carolina and Matthew and Nicole McCracken from South Carolina hunted at Big Water Safaris during April 2025. Sanet and I met the Slade family at the Dixie Deer Classic in North Carolina, with Kathleen being the driving force and organiser behind this Safari. A lot of fun was had, and the tigers were adequately fed. Despite heavy rains and vehicles getting stuck all over the show, the hunt was very successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathleen Slade and Daniel Westmoreland were married recently and everyone at Big Water Safaris wish this wonderful couple a long and happy life together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professional hunters: Louis Blom, Bennie Breytenbach, Thinus Steyn and Dewald Kearns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The driving force behind the Slade family safari, Kathleen Slade with her gemsbok (oryx) bull. This is the largest gemsbok bull ever hunted at Big Water Safaris.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Joanna and Eric Slade with Eric’s kudu bull. Family hunts are always fun, but this hunt was in a class of its own. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Joanna Slade with her zebra. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Savannah Slade with her zebra.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nicole McCracken with her blue wildebeest bull.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Matt McCracken with his blesbuck ram.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eric and Kathleen Slade with a white blesbuck ram.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Daniel Westmoreland with his kudu bull. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lance Legget with his ostrich.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eric and Joanna Slade with Eric’s springbok.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kathleen Slade with her red Hartebeest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nicole McCracken with her springbok ram.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lance Legget with his kudu bull.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Savannah Slade and Lance Legget with Savannah’s zebra. Never a boring moment on this hunt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Joanna Slade with her impala ram.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Daniel Westmoreland with his blue wildebeest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Daniel Westmoreland with his blesbuck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lance Legget and Savannah Slade with Savannah’s warthog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Savannah Slade with her blesbuck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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During the hunt, it rained. A lot. Vehicles were getting stuck all over the show…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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…and then the recovery vehicles got stuck while attempting to unstick the hunting rigs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Slade Group with their trophies at the end of their Safari. A very successful and fun safari.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Slade’s from North Carolina, Eric and Joanna, their daughters Kathleen and Savannah, their friends Lance Legget and Daniel Westmoreland from North Carolina and Matthew and Nicole McCracken from South Carolina hunted at Big Water Safaris during April 2025. Sanet and I met the Slade family at the Dixie Deer Classic in North Carolina, with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}