Hazen Audel Instagram – Successful hunt.
Finishing high-school & 4 months into college going for my biology degree. Frustrated with not learning biology in classes like how I was teaching myself biology. Too immature, or too rebellious to appreciate the additional math, organic chemistry, & all the other classes I was taking. So I left, always hoping I would someday follow through with my degree- once I knew my ambitions of being an expeditionary biologist were really something that could be me.
Taking a break/dropping out/running away, or going after my greatest dream w/ lazer focus & reckless abandon.
I set off to Ecuador, 680$ for a plane ride, & 78$ to last me however long that would last me in the jungle.
Starter cost was a 2 day bus ride from Quito to the end of the road, as deep as something w/ tires could go into the jungle.
Very long story short- 8 months later, living in a household, a family, belonging to the Lowland Quichua tribe. There I learned 2 languages, 8 months w/out electricity, and all food coming from the garden, the rivers & the forest. They taught me everything I could learn in a day & every night for all those days.
One of the elders in the household was the community Shaman. I of course was far more attentive to his knowledge & teachings than any of my college professors. He graciously gave me his dugout canoe & my family set my course for going deeper.
10 days in a canoe by myself & I might reach the territory of the Huaorani.
Again, long story short. I lived w/ the #Huaorani & #Quichua on and off for the next 15 year .
I have been taught by the best, and I can only take my own responsibility for how much I perfect their teachings. They have taken me very far…
This is a photo from many years ago. Everyday we go hunting. We set off for prized prey but there is never a guarantee. But never a hunt comes back empty handed. With knowledge & drive to survive & feed families the forest provides. Found fruits, roots, honey, baskets full of fish harvested from creeks, birds or bird eggs etc. The hardest days & hungriest nights still bring knowledge that arms success the following days.
This photo; the sought after prey. Pursuit hunt w/ spears. #hunt | Posted on 10/May/2024 23:41:57
