7 August 2015
Today myself
and my two enthusiastic guests arrived at Nkambeni camp rather late due to
excessive holiday traffic on the way!
In minutes they
were on their sundowner safari where they encountered great sightings of
Elephant and Buffalo as well as one of the smaller Kruger Cats ... The Small
Spotted Genet!
8 August 2015
Today we set
off in superb conditions and had a prolific day!!
Our journey to
Shithave dam brought us Elephant herds, Buffalo in numbers, kudu, Impala, Wildebeest,
zebra, Giraffe, Duiker and Vervet monkeys!!!
At Shithave we
were observing the lone Hippo as well as Impala and Zebra coming down to drink
when suddenly another of the smaller Cats ... The Serval came cantering down to
drink then chased a Steenbok on its way into thick bush!! The Serval is a
spectacular cat very seldom sighted and what was even more bizarre was that my
colleague Karen had spotted one up near Transport dam a little earlier!!
We came across
a spectacular White Rhino sighting ( I’m not going to give the number seen due
to security reasons) but trust me It was one of my better sightings of this
species in a long time!!!
The highlight
today was the Leopard sighting very close to Pretoriouskop camp!
A beautiful
male was perfectly perched in Sycamore Fig tree about 30 meters away from us!!!
His positioning was 5out of 5 for us with full body and face views allowing for
brilliant photographs!!!
After an hours
observance of this beauty we headed to PK camp for lunch!!
After the
break we returned to the sighting with perfect timing as the Leopard was just
about to leave the tree!!
We got solid
pics of his ground jump and then followed him up the road for a couple hundred
meters where he crossed right in front of us and then disappeared into thicker
vegetation!!
On returning
to camp at 15:30 I realized we had not done more than 60 km the entire day!!!
Lovely
sightings of Tawny Eagles as well as Bateleur were also seen!!!
9 August 2015
Today was
known as 'day of Elephant' due to the amount of elephants seen throughout
todays drive.
10 August 2015
We set off on
our last and very short drive in bitterly cold conditions!!!
Having not
really good pics of Warthog and Waterbuck, we were really pleased to find them
up close!!!
At a close by
waterhole we came across Giraffe which is always a bonus!!!
We returned to
Nelspruit reminiscing about a trip that just went too fast!!!!
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