On Safari With Dean From 12 October 2013

12 October 2013

Today we picked up the clients at The Genesis Hotel and made our way to Nelspruit were we changed vehicles and headed towards Nkambeni Safari Camp.

Guests were then given time to have lunch and a rest before going on their first game drive.

We left camp at 15h30 and made our way down the Numbi gate tar getting good sightings of zebra, buffalo and impala. We turned down onto Napi road and got more sightings of buffalo, impala and kudu. We made our way around the Napi boulders and then onto Shithave dam getting waterbuck and impala.

Rhino sightings were also enjoyed thought the afternoon drive.

As it was getting late we made our way back to camp while on the way getting great sightings of more rhino, buffalo, sable antelope, impala, waterbuck and two hyena and there pups.

We returned to camp a bit late for the gate, but having experienced some great sightings.

13 October 2013

We left Nkambeni Safari Camp at 06h00 and made our way up the Numbi gate tar, getting good sightings of buffalo, hyena and kudu. We turned onto Napi Road and immediately got a good sighting of buffalo and Sable antelope. We made our way on getting more good sightings of elephant, impala, kudu, waterbuck, wildebeest and rhino.

Just after the Transport dam turnoff, we came across a clan of eight hyena laughing in the road trying to coax out the pups from the culvert. After having a good sighting and after pulling away, we got a call of a leopard sighting two kilometers from the Watergat junction, upon arrival we managed to get into a good position and enjoyed a good sighting.

While on the leopard sighting, we were told of some lions lying a couple of kilometres down the H 3. We made our way in that direction and were blessed to find a lioness together with her cubs lying next to the road. After the sighting, we made our way back in the direction of Skukuza for a break, before carrying on with another drive.

After our break, we made our way onto Elloff street taking a drive along the Sabie River, we got a good sighting of buffalo on Alpha loop.

We heard of a pride of lions lying next to the river further down towards the high water bridge, we made our way in that direction, and managed to get a gold sighting before the traffic built up.

We went on getting more good sightings of buffalo and elephant. The route taken after the lion sighting was over the high water bridge onto the link road and then down the Tshokwane tar back to Skukuza.

Sightings encountered on that portion of the drive was impala, kudu, elephant, baboon, lions, bushbuck.

Upon returning to Skukuza, we decided to carry on back down Napi Road to Pretoriuskop Camp for lunch, before returning to Nkambeni Safari Camp for a rest, before the guests left on the afternoon / evening Safari.

Sightings that were enjoyed by the guests this afternoon were elephant, kudu, buffalo, zebra, impala, rhino, waterbuck, sable antelope and warthog.

We returned back to camp at 15h00 for the guests to have their rest, before leaving on the next drive.

14 October 2013

On this day we left camp at 06h00am and travelled on the camp access road getting to groups of buffalo, elephant, impala and kudu.

We turned onto the Numbi Gate Tar getting four different groups of buffalo as well as hyena pups and their mothers 100m past Hendrick Pretorius grave. We carried on getting rhino as well as sable antelope 105km past the junction.

We decided to then take a drive to shithave dam getting hippo and waterbuck.

2.7km past shithave dam we spotted 10 lions who had just finished eating on a buffalo calf.
Five different rhino sightings were also enjoyed thought the morning after which we made our way out the Park gates and headed back to Johannesburg so guests could catch their flight to Cape Town.

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