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Tuesday, 26 November 2013

On Safari From 22 November 2013

22 November 2013

The route today was out of camp at 06h00 down the Albasini road, onto Doispane and then up the Paul Kruger Gate Tar to Skukuza for a break.

Animals seen were elephant, rhino, buffalo, impala, kudu, giraffe and stenbuck.

After a tea and coffee break, it was up the Tshokwane tar over the high water bridge, down Elloff Street and back down the Napi Road to camp for lunch.

Animals seen were loads of elephant, buffalo, rhino and giraffe.

This afternoon after meeting some new guests who were joining the safari, we made our way up the Numbi Gate tar, onto the Napi Road, down to Shithave dam and then back onto Napi Road.

Animals seen were common Reedbuck, elephant, buffalo, rhino, waterbuck, impala, cheetah and wildebeest.

 23 November 2013

Today the route was as follows,

We left camp at 06hoo went up the Numbi gate tar getting some hyena females together with their pups. We turned onto Napi Road going down to the H3. We made our way past Quagga pan for about five kilometres, then turned around and made our way back to Napi road, as not much was going on. During this part of the drive, elephants, buffalo, rhino, impala, wildebeest, hyena and kudu were seen.

On the way back to Napi road, a call was received about a mating pair of leopards close to us on the Napi Road, we moved it up and got them in the middle of the road. They moved off the road and within three minutes were gone.

We made our way to Skukuza for a break.

After our break, we were told of another leopard in the tree on the S114, so we decided to go and have a look, we managed to find it lying in a marula tree. After a good sighting, we made our way down the S114 , onto the S112 and back up the H3, before making our way back to camp for lunch.

Animals seen were impala, wildebeest, zebra, hyena, rhino, buffalo, elephant and sable antelope.

This afternoon, we made a turn at Mentsel dam getting hippo's and then went across to Manungu koppies, getting baboon and dwarf mongooses as well as hyena and elephant, before returning to camp.

 24 November 2013

We left camp at 06h00 and made our way down the Numbi Gate tar and onto the Napi Road to the H3 junction and then back to Numbi Gate in order for clients to get their transfer back to Johannesburg.

Animals seen were rhino, buffalo, elephant, impala, kudu, waterbuck, hippo and Klipspringer.

After dropping clients off, we took another drive down the Albasini road, onto Doispane and then up the Paul Kruger Gate tar and back to camp on Napi Road.

Animals seen were zebra, giraffe, mating pair of lions, elephant, rhino, buffalo, impala, waterbuck, kudu, warthog and baboon.

This afternoon’s game drive was around the Shabeni Koppies, around Manungu Koppies and then around Voortrekker link.

Animals seen were hyena, elephant, rhino, buffalo, kudu, impala and baboon.

 25 November 2013

Today we left camp at 06h00 and made our way up the Numbi gate tar getting good sightings of buffalo and hyena, we then turned onto Napi Road going down to Transport dam and then returning to Numbi Gate to take guests through to Nelspruit for their transfer back to Johannesburg.

Animals seen were rhino, elephant, buffalo, impala, kudu, waterbuck, hippo, zebra and baboon.

This afternoon game drive left at 15h00 with new guests and the same route was driven with exception that we went down to the H3 junction.

Animals seen were elephant, rhino, buffalo, kudu, waterbuck, hyena, impala, zebra, hippo and baboon.

Guests returned to the lodge with five minutes to spare before gate closing.

 26 November 2013

Guest return to Johannesburg today with Dean.

 

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