12th February 2013
Mark Collected his guests from the City Bug Shuttle which we use from time to time if we cannot transfer guests ourselves. Once guests arrived it was a wet drive to the Numbi gate of the Kruger National park. On arrival at Numbi Gate Mark drove the following route for the afternoon
Route traveled: Napi - boulders - napi - nkambeni
Not many animal sightings this afternoon due to bad weather as it was still raining quite hard fro the afternoon. First sighting for the afternoon was a tower/journey of giraffe just before Shebeni turn off on the numbi tar. (6 female in total) A few sightings of Kudu down the napi road. A elephant bull next to the road just before Boulders entrance. A very distant rhino sighting as well. On our way to Nkambeni Camp we had a small herd of elephant walking in the road just before numbi gate. The herd was protecting to very small elephant that couldn't of been more than a month or two old.
That's all for the afternoon drive, before making his way to camp for the evening, so lets see what tomorrow has to offer.
Mark Collected his guests from the City Bug Shuttle which we use from time to time if we cannot transfer guests ourselves. Once guests arrived it was a wet drive to the Numbi gate of the Kruger National park. On arrival at Numbi Gate Mark drove the following route for the afternoon
Route traveled: Napi - boulders - napi - nkambeni
Not many animal sightings this afternoon due to bad weather as it was still raining quite hard fro the afternoon. First sighting for the afternoon was a tower/journey of giraffe just before Shebeni turn off on the numbi tar. (6 female in total) A few sightings of Kudu down the napi road. A elephant bull next to the road just before Boulders entrance. A very distant rhino sighting as well. On our way to Nkambeni Camp we had a small herd of elephant walking in the road just before numbi gate. The herd was protecting to very small elephant that couldn't of been more than a month or two old.
That's all for the afternoon drive, before making his way to camp for the evening, so lets see what tomorrow has to offer.
13th February 2013
Mark departed from Nkambeni after breakfast and this is the route followed for the day.
Route traveled: napi - H3 - little jock - S114 - napi - Nkambeni
This morning provided great results with regard to general game viewing along the napi (giraffe, warthog, kudu, waterbuck, blue wildebeast, zebra and many of the small antelopes were seen). We responded to a leopard sighting 300m from transport dam access rd on the napi. Unfortunately with no sighting of this amazing animal. As we turned onto the H3 we had a magnificent sighting of a herd of elephants walking along the road. 1.9kms from the H3 on the little jock we came across 2 male Lions, 2 lionesses and 6 cubs on a zebra carcass. All the stomachs were full and the lionesses started to move off once traffic and the heat of the day started to increase. We had lunch at the golf course as this was a surprise for our client, which is the owner of a golf course in France. They absolutely loved the place and couldn't believe we play golf out here in the wild Africa. The afternoon drive back to camp proved to be rather quiet with the occasional sighting of general game. Our guests left on a sundowner this afternoon and we wait in anticipation to see what is seen.
Mark departed from Nkambeni after breakfast and this is the route followed for the day.
Route traveled: napi - H3 - little jock - S114 - napi - Nkambeni
This morning provided great results with regard to general game viewing along the napi (giraffe, warthog, kudu, waterbuck, blue wildebeast, zebra and many of the small antelopes were seen). We responded to a leopard sighting 300m from transport dam access rd on the napi. Unfortunately with no sighting of this amazing animal. As we turned onto the H3 we had a magnificent sighting of a herd of elephants walking along the road. 1.9kms from the H3 on the little jock we came across 2 male Lions, 2 lionesses and 6 cubs on a zebra carcass. All the stomachs were full and the lionesses started to move off once traffic and the heat of the day started to increase. We had lunch at the golf course as this was a surprise for our client, which is the owner of a golf course in France. They absolutely loved the place and couldn't believe we play golf out here in the wild Africa. The afternoon drive back to camp proved to be rather quiet with the occasional sighting of general game. Our guests left on a sundowner this afternoon and we wait in anticipation to see what is seen.
14th February 2013
After a good hearty breakfast at Nkambeni guests departed for the day on a drive.
Route: Albaeni - Doispan - thsokwane tar - S114 - Doispan - Albeseni - Nkambeni
Route: Albaeni - Doispan - thsokwane tar - S114 - Doispan - Albeseni - Nkambeni
A total of 55 Elephant seen throughout the day. Mostly seen on Albeseni and Doispan. Great dazzles of Zebra also seen on Doispan. We missed a lioness carrying her cubs 1 for 1 from Klipspringer Koppies. A herd of buffalo (300) at Deleport Dam, they must of spent the night there waiting for first light before the herd moved on. Very little happening all the way up to Jones Dam. While on the Tshokwane tar we got a call about a leopard at the experimental tar. We drove to the sighting to find it kill a young impala and eat it on the ground right next to a false marola tree.
After lunch we headed back to camp and on the way we had another leopard sighting but rather far from the road. She was enjoying the shade in the heat of the day. Rhino sightings were plentiful today with these magnificent animals approximately 5m from my car. Our clients are impressed with the sightings today and came back to camp to lie around at the swimming pool. Tomorrow morning is our clients bush walk and hopefully this could provide good results.
15th February 2013
After lunch we headed back to camp and on the way we had another leopard sighting but rather far from the road. She was enjoying the shade in the heat of the day. Rhino sightings were plentiful today with these magnificent animals approximately 5m from my car. Our clients are impressed with the sightings today and came back to camp to lie around at the swimming pool. Tomorrow morning is our clients bush walk and hopefully this could provide good results.
15th February 2013
Guests will return to Johannesburg this afternoon as they fly back to France this evening.
Mark will re-enter the park on Sunday with new guests.
Mark will re-enter the park on Sunday with new guests.
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