The Antony Diplock Profile

Ant Diplock was born in the former Transkei and grew up on a sugar farm on the Natal south coast. He spent his youth hunting, fishing, surfing and skippering dive and fishing boats. Once he completed his National Service he returned to the Eastern Cape and worked in the wholesale and rural market supply. He then progressed and was employed by the Coca-Cola Company to market the product in the rural areas. He disliked corporate life and soon was on the ocean again. He got a position as a skipper on Benguerra Island as fishing guide and left behind him the discomfort of wearing shoes, belts and ties. When he's not fishing or diving he is in the bush bow hunting or guiding.

Ant has a respect and love for Mother Nature that has become his life and he shares his knowledge in angling, hunting, animals and the ocean. He has a passion for photography and has started professionally guided ocean experience trips for photographers and nature enthusiasts alike. Spending most of his time between Mozambique, Botswana, South Africa and Kenya, he does private trips that are personalized and simple.
He speaks six languages of which four are black languages and has a vast knowledge of the Southern African continent. He is passionate about his friends and having a good time and works equally as hard with enthusiasm when at sea or on land. He loves to learn more about Africa and its animals every day and competent off road driving instructor. He takes safety seriously and has a wicked sense of humor. He can be very serious at times and equally humorous. Ant is easy going and charismatic with a hunger to show people the experiences that he had first hand. Personal and private trips are what he specializes in and there are no frills and complications, just keeping things simple.

Please feel free to contact him for advice on boating, hunting, off road driving or fishing issues. In any day in Ants life he is using his gear in a harsh environment. He, like all outdoorsmen, has his preferred brands of gear that is either rugged or efficient.