October In The Cape
IF YOU are serious about hunting pigs in Cape York, then you will plan your trips around the end of the dry season. From September through to November the temperature is rising, rain hasn’t fallen for six months and the creeks and waterholes are drying up. And that was why I was here again, in early October, spending the long hot days pushing through the parched scrub in search of these remaining pockets of water, and hopefully a few tusky boars.
“There was a freshly used wallow and the prints of a big boar.”
The sun was just lighting the eastern horizon as I rolled out of my swag and kicked the fire into shape for a billy of tea. We were camped on the edge of a large swamp that we first discovered and hunted four years ago, and each year since it had produced good pigs.
