16 August 2015
We entered the
Park in perfect game viewing conditions and on the sunset drive 3 of the big 5
were spotted (rhino, buffalo and elephant).
17 August 2015
Today we started
our drive in icy weather conditions. It was a rather quiet day with our
highlight being a superb White Rhino sighting.
18 August 2015
There comes a
time and yes these types of miracles happen on safari!!!
Yesterday the
4 Indian girls (Whom today are known as the magnificent 7) were in serious
gratitude mode despite having seen relatively little!!! As my long term
colleague Mark said last night "a bad day out in Kruger is rare!. Things
normally turn back the next day!!!
Too true it
could not have been.... 6:09am we spotted three wild dogs on the hunt!
O6:48am a Cheetah with 1 cub 07:12am 2 leopards chasing 2 Hyena and vice
versa!!! O7:39am 1 female Hyena 08:15am 1 lioness and 2 cubs 08:45am
leopard.
Elephant, buffalo
and W rhino were also spotted.
19 August 2015
Todays guests
started a 2 nighter out of Nkambeni and we saw some great general game for a
while and then got some luck in with a 3/5 Cheetah sighting which was about 30
meters from the road!
Although they
were pretty much flat out sleeping they lifted their heads up at us quite often
allowing for some great pics!!!
On returning
to camp we picked up some great Elephant and Buffalo sightings!
Tomorrow we
chase the sun and look forward to it!!!!
20 August 2015
This time of
the year and especially this year due to excessive dryness brings those on
safari a fair amount of luck!!!
This morning
was no exception where we picked up 4/5 within 7 minutes of entering Numbi gate
and a loan wild dog near Pretoriouskop picnic site!!
What was to
follow was rather incredible with 3 Leopard sightings, a pride of 13 Lions,11
w.rhino and four herds of Buffalo!!
Our sighting
which took the cake towards the end of River road near the Sabie was a
relatively large herd of Elephant extremely close in a very open area!
However what
made this sighting special was there were 6 little calves literally all of the
same size trotting along with their Moms and playing all around!!!
There sure was
some unbelievable birth timing amongst this bunch of ever caring females in a
magnificent herd!!!
All general
game sightings were of a high standard as well and the Hippo pod at Mestel dam
was something else!!!
We head out a
bit later to cover the koppie roads near camp and cant wait!!!
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