14 July 2015
We split the
day in two and on the morning drive our highlight was coming across a cheetah.
We didn't expect to see one, but a nice couple on a self-drive safari told us
about it on the way.
When we got to
the sighting it luckily was still there. The cheetah was lying on a termite
mound, which isn't very unusual. However this cat had made herself comfortable
in a way that looked very uncomfortable. Have you ever seen Ice Age? Remember
Sid the sloth getting comfortable when going to sleep? Well, exactly like
that!! It was lying upside down and hanging downwards with her head! And she
was definitely not dead as we saw her look up a couple of times (and plop back
down on her back).
As new guests
were arriving today it was a highlight to see their first animal roaming around
the fence-line of the camp: a small family of elephants was walking by and got
the guests attention. Good start of a safari, especially when the actual safari
hasn't even started yet.
Other
interesting sightings: common grey duikers, steenboks, blue wildebeests, a
lioness, klipspringers, elephant bulls, kudus, waterbucks, white rhinos, a
family of nyala including a young fawn, vervet monkeys, zebras and of course
impalas.
And some new
birds: guineafowls, crested and natal francolins, red-crested korhaan and an
African harrier hawk.
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