8 September 2014
Today we arrived at camp to hear the sad news of two of the Wild Dog pups seen on our last
trip had been taken out by lions. Putting the bad news behind us we set out on
our afternoon drive and picking up superb visuals of elephant males, rhino and
a beautiful group of older buffalo bulls approaching us whilst the sun set
behind them!
9 September 2014
Today we set out with excited anticipation only to see that
due to excessive mist our visibility was only 10m into the bush! After a hour
of “No animals in the mist” , I decided to completely change direction and
within 45 minutes we broke through the mist into sunlight which on route
brought us great sightings of Elephant herds, rhino, buffalo, zebra, giraffe,
impala, kudu, vervet monkeys, baboons and 28 bird species.
By 10am temperatures had risen to 33 degrees! The guests
asked me to sing once another guide told them my name (Robbie Williams)….. I
said “once we see the big 5!”
Lone behold within an hour I was singing “feel” by Robbie
Williams!! As we picked up lions and a magnificent male leopard which crossed
the Sabi River low level bridge.
The afternoon drive involved a slow exploration of beautiful
koppies around camp where we picked up a herd of over 200 buffalo and some
hyena.
It had turned out to be one superb day!
10 September 2014
Today we set off at the crack of dawn and a call came
through on the radio and we were soon on the way to a pride of lions but to our
disappointment we just missed them!! However on the way there we go excellent
visuals of rhino, elephant, a huge buffalo herd and a mobile herd of zebra.
With temperatures reaching 30 degrees we were delighted to
come across a lion pride of 11 strong and in mint condition. They were all
asleep but a brilliant visual.
The highlight of the morning was when I trusted my intuition
and waited on river road for a 50 head strong elephant herd to come back from
their drink in the sabie river. Suddenly we had the entire herd mobile towards
us on a downhill which was spectacular considering they were all darkened wet
and bunched together! It was a top class morning!
The afternoon drive was very relaxing but rather quiet
however the sunset was super spectacular!
We look forward to tomorrow!
11 September 2014
Today we were extremely lucky picking up 4 of the 5 before
8am only missing leopard which eluded us for the rest of the day!
Two other interesting sightings were a Southern ground
hornbill devouring a tortoise and a 1m Mozambique spitting cobra.
Herds of giraffe and zebra were seen in abundance and 6
different raptor species were spotted.
The guests thoroughly enjoyed being mock charged buy a
juvenile male elephant with attitude just before sunset.
More coming soon!!
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