On Safari With Robbie 12 November 2015

12 November 2015

At approx 5am this morning we came across our best Lion sighting of the trip with a pair of beautiful males close to a lovely female. .

Also seen were: Wild dogs , W Rhino , Buffalo , Good general game .. Spotted Hyena, Civet Cat and African fruit bat.

On Safari With Karen 12 November 2015

12 November 2015

Our last morning was a quiet morning. Seemed like we used up all our luck yesterday.

However we did get some new animals for our checklist. Our first new animal was a tree squirrel. And I have never seen anyone this enthusiastic about a tree squirrel as my current guests! He was hopping along the tree quite nicely, but fanatic as they are to complete the checklist, every new animal counts. 

We also could add a steenbok to the checklist, a hawk eagle, klipspringer, and we had nice sightings of wild dogs, 7 adult hyenas, 2 young pups and a curious youngster, zebras, white rhinos, elephant bulls, buffalo bulls, waterbucks, impalas jumping and kudus. 

Then it was time to say goodbye to Adam, Malia and Barry, who would be on their way to the airport. Their journey would continue, but the bug mystery was where to... I think the final decision would be made at the airport! Have fun guys, wherever you are ending up :-). It was great having you on safari with us!!

On Safari With Robbie 11 November 2015

11 November 2015

Chris and Dave thoroughly enjoyed their bushwalk with the highlight being for them approaching a herd of - 14 Sable on foot!!!

We relaxed a bit and then headed for Skukuza in blistering temperatures exceeding 45 degrees .... The highlight being 2 Male lions on a small Buffalo calf kill with excellent visuals .... Also seen was Aftican Wild dog , W. rhino , Buffalo , Elephant and excellent general game!!!

On Safari With Curtis 11 November 2015

11 November 2015

The final morning of this tour turned out to be a rhino morning with twelve rhinos seen all in the space of thirty minutes.

All size and groups ranging from a solitary male to a crash of four.

Also we had again another lovely sighting at the hyena den with five young black Cubs out playing in the early morning sun.

We also had final sightings of elephant, buffalo, kudu, waterbuck, hippo, warthog, zebra and of course Impala.

Then it was time to say farewell to all in our group. To Pete and Eileen, Sanghamitra and Bhaskar, Claudio and Marta and finally James.

Great having you guys on tour, hope to see again sometime and enjoy Cape Town whatever you do!!!

On Safari With Karen 11 November 2015

11 November 2015

Today it was a unique day of rare animal sightings!!!

We started of with a black rhino, our first animal seen this morning when we started the drive. Then we caught up with wild dogs which had just made a kill down in the riverbed and came walking up to show us their bloody faces. A rare saddle-billed stork was seen in the riverbed. And then we got rattled at by a honeybadger! Which then fled when we didn't feel threatened, but were really excited. Five sables were drinking in the river. And to top it all off we then saw my first ever PANGOLIN!!! It just ambled along, and we even managed to take pictures (although mine are a bit shaky from excitement...). I am lost for words, absolutely speechless...

Other interesting sightings: 3 lionesses with 4 youngsters, lots of elephant herds with little babies, hyenas, a hippo out of the water, bushbucks, waterbucks, impalas, nyalas, warthogs, zebras, lots of giraffes, beautiful kudu bulls, our first crocodile sighting of this safari, vervet monkeys, baboons, leopard tortoise and marsh terrapin. 

New birds included kori bustards, arrow marked babblers, grey and goliath herons, great white egret, crowned lapwings, white faces ducks, red-faced mousebirds and swainson's spurfowl.