10 February 2016
Two lovely new
guests arrived from Germany today, Natalie and Achim.
We arrived in
the park mid afternoon, got our permits and headed out, no expectations just a
nice relaxing drive ahead.
We drove slowly
absorbing the sights and sounds of the bush.
We drove past
the picnic spot at pretoriuoskop and there was a lovely bull Elephant chomping
away. Further down we saw zebras and sat for a while watching the vervet
monkeys frolicking around.
Heading towards
pk flat rocks...more elephants always lovely to see! As we drove around the
loop, not 3 meters from us was the young female leopard in a silver cluster
leaf tree.. amazing.
we sat with her
and watched her climb down and cross the rocks where she stayed then moved off
into the bushes..
A fantastic start
for my guests!
11 February 2016
Early departure
on our second day. Driving towards skukuza we saw lovely European rollers along
the roadside, we went to shithave dam and there was a big hippo in the water
every now and then coming up for a look.
Breakfast at
skukuza and a wander around the shops then we headed back to camp.
On our way an
update of another leopard in a tree with an impala kill...and there he was
lying exhausted, legs either side of the branch, and beautiful sight.
On our way home
we did a quick loop again to see if the female leopard was there, and there she
lay not at all bothered by our presence.
After lunch a
quick drive around manugu koppies.. with the golden hour approaching the light
was perfect as we watched 3 bull elephants wandering down the road, we had to
reverse, they were very relaxed and all walked past us as if we were
invisible!
Manugu koppies
looked beautiful with the sun glowing and we headed around for a photo shoot.
Last koppie of
the day before gate closing, we sit and marvel at the view, just relaxing and
chatting and then drive slowly down the hill, Achim whispers" another
leopard in the tree" there lay another leopard!!
Leopards don't
like our presence and he soon stretched and climbed down disappearing into the
distance.
Another amazing
day in the most amazing place on earth!
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