23 September 2015
It can rain, it
can shine in the Lowveld. Unfortunately the newly arrived guests experienced
the first on their sundowner safari. Clouds started forming already when they
climbed onto the safari vehicle. They therefor already had no sunset with their
drinks, but even worse, just after their drinks stop it came pummeling down.
The drive was therefor cut short as besides the guests getting soaking wet, the
animals had found a safe haven out of sight and away from the rain.
24 September 2015
Except for the
humidity their was no evidence left in the sky of yesterday's storm as all was
blue and sunny. We left after breakfast and got some pretty good sightings
today.
Our highlight
was seeing a herd of elephants up close, munching their way through the fresh
green leaves. With their trunk they would wrap around a branch and pull off all
the nice green bits to eat. Eventually they even crossed in front of us so we
had a good look at them. In the afternoon we were joined by 4 more guests and
it was nice to once again encounter elephants close by.
Later we also
found another highlight as it was our first predator, and for everyone to enjoy
too: a leopard. She was resting after a hot day, but very interested in the
amount of people coming by to look at her. She was very relaxed and even though
she was in between some bushes and tall grass, we got a good look at her.
Especially since she looked at us directly multiple times.
Other animals
seen: lots of impalas, mating tree squirrels (yup, spring is in the air!),
waterbucks, kudus, a steenbok, giraffes, white rhinos, zebras, warthogs, a tree
agama, hippos playing, dwarf mongooses, common grey duikers, lots of buffalos,
sable antelopes, vervet monkeys, a water monitor crossing and crocodiles
sunning.
Birds included a
sighting of 6 rare ground hornbills, lilac breasted rollers, cape glossy
starlings, an African fish eagle, Egyptian geese, an African jacana, bataleurs,
tawny eagles making babies (told you, spring is in the air!), white-backed
vultures, fork-tailed drongos, dark-capped bulbuls, a sub-adult martial eagle
and an African hoopoe.
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