{"id":762,"date":"2022-06-06T16:24:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/?p=762"},"modified":"2022-06-06T16:26:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:26:45","slug":"ronney-gillikin-and-cold-graves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/06\/ronney-gillikin-and-cold-graves\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronney Gillikin and Cole Graves."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>May 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ronney and Cole, both from North Carolina, hunted with us during May.  Professional Hunters Dewald Kearns and Heinrich Funck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220512_192235_626.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220512_192235_626.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220512_192235_626-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Ronney Gillikin with a great old kudu bull.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"978\" height=\"665\" src=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0.jpg 978w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0-768x522.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\" \/><figcaption>Cole Graves with a kudu bull. The Orange River, South Africa&#8217;s largest river is in the background. Laohu Valley Reserve lies on both sides of the Orange River.<br><br> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_8701-1024x674.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_8701-1024x674.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_8701-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_8701-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_8701-1536x1010.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_8701.jpg 1940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Feeding time. Cole Graves at the South China Tiger project on Laohu Valley Reserve. The bulk of the meat from the animals harvested go to feed the tigers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220509-WA0004.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220509-WA0004.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220509-WA0004-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220509-WA0004-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Ronney Gillikin with a gemsbuck (oryx) bull hunted at Laohu Valley Reserve with Big Water Safaris.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220511-WA0006-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220511-WA0006-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220511-WA0006-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220511-WA0006-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220511-WA0006-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220511-WA0006.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Cole Graves with a blesbuck hunted with Big Water Safaris. Laohu Valley Reserve is home to \u00b1800 blesbuck, an antelope endemic to South Africa. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2022. Ronney and Cole, both from North Carolina, hunted with us during May. Professional Hunters Dewald Kearns and Heinrich Funck.<\/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\/762"}],"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=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}