7 January 2015
Last nights drive was a great success with plenty of general game as well as civet and genet to add to the list of animals seen.
This morning got off to a flyer as only fifteen minutes we got our highlight of the day.
Four lions laying slap bang in the middle of the road, so relaxed were they that we were able to drive right up next to them. We sat watching them for about fifteen minutes when we heard hyenas calling close by. This immediately made the lions sit up and take note. We watched for a few minutes more before chancing it and trying to find the hyenas. Just a couple of hundred meters from the lions we found four hyena. Three right next to the road and the fourth more shy and hidden in the trees.
After watching for a while we returned to the lions spending another twenty minutes with them all to ourselves.
Our second highlight of the day was a troupe of vervets also relaxing on the road. Being early and still cool the youngsters were having great fun playing and wrestling with each other while the adults were busy feeding.
Other animals of note seen today were elephants, buffalo, 2 leopard sightings, another 2 hyena sightings, Bushbuck, wildebeest, giraffe, plenty of hippo, marsh terrapins and a tiny chameleon crossing the road.
Birds included marabou stork, yellow billed stork, African spoonbill, grey heron and a trio of hornbills including the Yellow-billed, red-billed and the southern ground hornbill.
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Monday, 9 February 2015
On Safari With Curtis: 6 February 2015
6 February 2015
This morning was an early start from camp and a quiet start before we started to rack up the sightings.
A herd of giraffe was a highlight of the day as we came across three of them, a female and two males who were busy fighting with each other. Maybe trying to show their prowess to the female the two males carried on their funny display of swinging necks just a bit too long enough as the female decided to walk off leaving the boys to it.
Our second highlight was a lion sighting. Initially on arrival there was not much to look at. Four lions sat hidden twenty meters in the bush and although we waited they didn't move much. We decided to leave them and go for some breakfast with the plan of returning afterwards.
This plan worked as on our return we found one of the lions just three meters from the road having a hard time getting a meal out of a leopard tortoise it had caught.
As we waited and listened to the crunching of shell the others all moved closer to the road giving us a great look at them.
Other animals seen included kudu, baboons, vervet monkey, bushbuck, elephants, leopard, more lionesses, warthog, giant land snail, buffalo and a young cobra.
Birds included crested francolins, swansons spurfowl, cape glossy starling, lilac breastfed roller, tawny eagle and blacksmith lapwings.
Tonight it's the night drive so will tell all tomorrow.,
This morning was an early start from camp and a quiet start before we started to rack up the sightings.
A herd of giraffe was a highlight of the day as we came across three of them, a female and two males who were busy fighting with each other. Maybe trying to show their prowess to the female the two males carried on their funny display of swinging necks just a bit too long enough as the female decided to walk off leaving the boys to it.
Our second highlight was a lion sighting. Initially on arrival there was not much to look at. Four lions sat hidden twenty meters in the bush and although we waited they didn't move much. We decided to leave them and go for some breakfast with the plan of returning afterwards.
This plan worked as on our return we found one of the lions just three meters from the road having a hard time getting a meal out of a leopard tortoise it had caught.
As we waited and listened to the crunching of shell the others all moved closer to the road giving us a great look at them.
Other animals seen included kudu, baboons, vervet monkey, bushbuck, elephants, leopard, more lionesses, warthog, giant land snail, buffalo and a young cobra.
Birds included crested francolins, swansons spurfowl, cape glossy starling, lilac breastfed roller, tawny eagle and blacksmith lapwings.
Tonight it's the night drive so will tell all tomorrow.,
Friday, 6 February 2015
On Safari With Curtis: 5 February 2015
5 February 2015
The start of a
new tour and after meeting in Nelspruit we entered the Kruger through Phabeni
gate.
Our first
highlight was a small family of elephants. Although they were hidden a little
by the thatching grass this was our first elephant sighting of the tour. One of
the females also had a very small calf who hadn't got even close to mastering
how to use its trunk.
The best
sighting, though, happened right at the last moment. After getting a call from
Mark we headed down to a wild dog sighting. Just as we arrived they got up and
seemed as if they were going to move out of sight deeper into the grass. But we
hung around getting a few brief glimpses when suddenly we noticed a couple more
who had moved onto the road behind us. We turned the vehicle and were now faced
with about seven of the dogs who were now standing in the road.
We spent about
ten minutes at this rare sighting before time forced us to leave and we made
our way down to Skukuza, our rest camp for the night.
Other animals
seen include impala, buffalo, zebra, kudu, waterbuck, hippo, leopard
tortoise and a very prickly porcupine who tried to take cover from the rain in
the restaurant!!! Unfortunately he had made no reservation and so was turned
away!!!
Birds included
the grey go away bird, grey heron, black stork, Egyptian geese, woodland
kingfisher and many more.
Monday, 2 February 2015
On Safari With Robbie: 30 January 2015
30 January 2015
Our last day on safari was awesome as we observed a lion pride on the hunt for over an hour and a half.
The bird list toped 65 different species, we were all as happy as could be having had a super safari spotting all the super predators and all the other sightings from chameleons to elephants.
We decided however that our number one sighting was the African rock python seen on day 3!
What a great safari!!
Our last day on safari was awesome as we observed a lion pride on the hunt for over an hour and a half.
The bird list toped 65 different species, we were all as happy as could be having had a super safari spotting all the super predators and all the other sightings from chameleons to elephants.
We decided however that our number one sighting was the African rock python seen on day 3!
What a great safari!!
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