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Tuesday 19 November 2013

On Safari With Dean From 14 November 2013

14 November 2013

We picked up guests from their respective hotels and drove through to Nelspruit where we changed over vehicles and made our way through to Nkambeni Tented camp.

After guests had a chance to get some lunch, it was out onto the road for a game drive to see what we could find.

We drove up the Numbi Gate tar and got good sightings of impala and buffalo. We turned onto the Napi Road and drove down to the Napi Boulders exit junction getting more great sightings of buffalo, a large herd of elephant crossing the road, more rhino, impala, kudu and waterbuck.

After turning back onto Napi road, we made our way back to camp getting more elephant, buffalo, impala, stenbuck, kudu and a female leopard in the Marula tree just after the Shithave dam junction.

After all of this we made our way back to camp, arriving with only five minutes to spare. Guests had a good dinner, before going to bed in order to get up early and be back on the road again trying to find some more animals.

 15 November 2013

Today it was out on the road again at 05h30 to see what we could find.

With five of the guests on a bush walk, we took a drive down the Numbi Gate tar onto the Napi Road, down Watergate, left onto Doispane, going down River Road link and then onto River Road over Doispane and then back to camp on the Albasini Road.

Animals seen were impala, kudu, buffalo, elephant, rhino, stenbuck, waterbuck before it went completely quite with few animals been seen due to rising temperatures.

We got back to camp at 09h00 for guests to have breakfast and for us to pick up the others before leaving on another drive.

We made a turn down to Shithave dam, and on the way back, came across a lion that we had been looking for since yesterday afternoon.
We spent a good amount of time on this sighting, arriving back at camp in time for lunch and for guests to enjoy a swim, before they leave on their Afternoon / Evening Safari at 16h30.

 
16 November 2013

Today we left camp at 06h00 and made our way up the Numbi Gate Tar and onto the Napi Road to skukuza for a break.

Animals seen were impala, kudu, elephant loads of buffalo, rhino as well as two female lions with their cubs.

After the break it was back to camp on the Napi Road as the temperatures were rising and six guests had to get their shuttle back to Johannesburg International Airport for their flights home.

We departed this afternoon on a game drive going around dye loop as well as Shabeni Kopies before returning to camp.

Animals seen were dwarf mongooses, giraffe, zebra, impala. Buffalo, Rhino and baboon.

Guests returned to camp to enjoy dinner before retiring to get some rest before leaving on the game drive tomorrow morning.

 17 November 2013

We left camp at 06h00 and made our way up the Numbi Gate tar getting great sightings of impala and four female hyena with some young pups.

We turned onto the Napi Road, and got some good sightings of buffalo and elephant. We turned down Napi boulders and got sightings of sable antelope, buffalo and more elephant.

We got a radio call of a leopard near to Transport dam and made our way in that direction, getting him lying next to the road. After getting some good photos we made our way to Numbi Gate and then onto Nelspruit airport for the guests flight to Cape Town.

After picking up new guests in Nelspruit and checking in to Nkambeni Safari Camp, we made our way out at 15h30 going down Napi Road around boulders and back to camp at 18h15.
Animals seen were nine different sightings of rhino, impala, waterbuck, kudu and buffalo.

Guests returned to the lodge to enjoy dinner, before retiring as there is an early start tomorrow morning.

 
18 November 2013

Today it was out of camp early again and onto the road to see what we could find.

We made our way onto the Numbi Gate tar turning onto the Napi Road to The H3. We made our way down the H3 onto the S112 up the S114 to Skukuza.

Animals seen were buffalo, elephant, rhino, impala, kudu, leopard, lion and managed to just miss a cheetah who decided to walk off before we got there.

After our break at the Skukuza Camp, we made our way down the Paul Kruger Gate road onto Doispane and up the Albasini back to camp.

Animals seen on this route was buffalo, impala, kudu, elephant, lion and rhino.

This afternoon after getting some new guests joining the safari, we took a drive around Faye Loop, around shabeni Koppies and back to camp.

Animals seen were buffalo, impala, loads of kudu, warthog and wildebeest.

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