4 June 2015
A bit of a late
start this morning as the guests had a much needed lie in.
When we did get
going we found our first highlight straight away. We headed down to dam and
found the hippo in good voice with waterbuck sitting nearby us. What made this
sighting even nicer was the sudden appearance of an elephant from the nearby
trees. We watched as she moved down to the waters edge and started to drink, we
watched for a few minutes when suddenly another elephant and then another until
all eight members of this family were drinking.
Our second
highlight happened as we were driving to a possible sighting we had been tipped
off about, but before we got there we found a leopard lying up in a marula
tree. Our timing was very lucky as she jumped down soon after we arrived and so
after finding her again we followed her for about a kilometer before losing
sight of her.
During the day
we also saw 3 cheetah, 2 lion sightings and a second leopard sighting as well
as giraffe, warthog, steenbok, common duiker, impala, kudu, waterbuck,
zebra, cape buffalo, white rhino, crocodile and lots of sunbathing hippo at the
golf club.
Birds included
African fish eagle, bataleurs, red-billed oxpeckers, red-billed hornbills,
blacksmith lapwings and hamerkops.
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