26 December 2015
Christmas in
the Kruger, there's no better place to spend the festivities!
Two lovely new
guests travelling all the way from Korea arrived full of excitement and ready
for the Kruger.
After a short
breakfast we headed out towards skukuza. Fantastic elephants greeted us slowly
crossing the road eating along the way. Lots of beautiful birds enjoying the
coolness of the morning, levailants cookoo, lilac breasted rollers, bee eaters,
white storks and a few tawny eagles.
We drove
towards delaporte waterhole as news came in of wild dogs, so we were expecting
to see them and 1km before then out came a leopard crossing the road and
walking into the bush...expect the unexpected as the saying goes!
On arrival at
delaporte there must have been 15 wild dogs lazing watching impalas come to
drink, a half attempt at hunting took place but it looked like the dogs had
already eaten.
We drove to
skukuza and had a quick coffee and then straight to the 114 for 2 very handsome
male lions. After sitting with them for half an hour we decided to turn back to
see the wild dogs,1 was still visible patiently watching the impalas then, out
of nowhere the whole pack charged out and charged at the impalas who quickly
dispersed, another unsuccessful hunt but I'm sure they will be rewarded later
today!
Lunch was
calling so we headed back to camp as we got close lots of cars were in the road
so I knew it could only be leopard....we slowly approached I saw him so did a quick
u turn and we were the only car following him for 10 mins.. lucky us...patience
is a virtue in the Kruger and anticipation of the animals behavior will help
with the best of sightings!
Another fantastic
day in the park.
27 December 2015
Exciting start
to the day for my guests they decided to do a bush walk early morning.
I watched them
leave and not more than half an hour later I heard elephants trumpeting loudly
close by camp.. I watched them and saw 3 of them running fast downhill and then
heading towards the same tree over and over bashing it and calling loudly.
After half and hour they disappeared at great speed! I greeted my guests when
they returned full of excitement telling me how they were close to the
elephants on foot whilst they were bashing the trees, they mentioned that they
saw fresh leopard tracks just before the elephants so we all wondered if there
was a leopard around bothering the elephants? !
After breakfast
we did a very relaxing drive and went to mestle dam where we sat for over an
hour watching elephants in the water Cooling off.
Again we had
lovely bee eaters lilac breasted rollers and red billed oxpeckers along the
way.
Our afternoon
drive was filled with spectacular scenery as the sun was setting changing
everything to a lovely golden colour...beautiful.
As we head off to
bed there's a report of a leopard that has been spotted close to camp...maybe
tomorrow we can find another elusive leopard!
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