6 March 2015
Another early
start and within ten minutes we had found our first highlight of the day.
A female
leopard lying in the fork of a tree just five meters from the road and we were
the only car at the sighting. As more vehicles showed she decided that was
enough and slowly got up, stretched, yawned and climbed down with just the
white tip of her tail showing in the tall grass.
Our second
highlight was later in the day as we drove up to a more open stretch where the
thatching grass is replaced by much shorter varieties of grass. Here we found a
multitude of animals including a herd of zebra, a herd of wildebeest, a couple
of giraffe and of course a few impala. Although through out the day we saw
plenty of these it's nice when they are all clustered so close together.
Other sighting
today include elephant, a buffalo herd, several rhino, hyena, a second leopard,
waterbuck, kudu, klipspringer, hippo baboons and vervets as well as a leopard
tortoise, chameleon and warthogs.
Birds included
the saddle billed stork, brown snake eagle, grey heron, wooly necked storks and
carmine bee eaters.
7 March 2015
Our last day of
this tour and we set off nice and early.
Once again our
first sighting was the female leopard we had seen yesterday and once again she
had no inclination to hang around for too long. But we still managed to get a
few good photos of her before she disappeared into the grass.
Our second
highlight was rhino, we found a lone male just busy grazing and as he moved
closer to the road we had a good look at him. As he then turned to move away we
drove off only to find three more rhino just a couple of hundred meters down
the road. These were lying in a nice open area giving a great view. Eventually
one by one they got up and moved away and so did we.
Other sightings
of this final drive were a buffalo herd, impala, kudu, waterbuck, zebra,
wildebeest, klipspringer, steenbok and lots of giraffe.
Then it was time
to leave the park and transfer my guests up to Nelspruit where they are going
to carry on their adventures.
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