1 September 2014
The day of the
'Cat' turned out to be a reality when close to the 114/Mathimiri junction we
came across a stunning and well fed male Leopard feeding on an Impala in a
Jackalberry tree 5m from the road! The smiles on the vehicle said it all!
Suddenly he
jumped down and lay on some rocks even closer to us lazily showing us his fat
belly! Within 30 minutes of this sighting I came across 6 Lions sleeping in the
Sabie river banks! We now have 6 of the magnificent 7 been seen!
Sometimes when
one has a cracker of a morning drive , the afternoon turns out to be quiet! For
us that was not going to be the case! Noticing a few vehicles stationary on the
koppies I took a chance and to our amazement we came across the 3 Wild dog from
the day before! Suddenly 5 pups of not more than 3 weeks old appeared from the
den above us suckling on their Mom! We watched the pups interacting with the
rest of the pack for a good hour till sunset when instinctively they all disappeared
into their den!
2 September 2014
This morning
we drove out to the wild dog den again and in awe we saw a female leopard was
on the move very close to the den! Not wanting guests to see the leopard
killing the pups we left the sighting. To our relief a call came through on the
radio that all 5 adult dogs had chased the Leopard away with her tail between
her legs!
On our last
game drive we only missed Lion and the guests chatted happily amongst
themselves that in 3 days they had seen 6 of the magnificent
7!
It was a truly
memorable and fantastic safari!
More coming
soon!!
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