26 September 2016
My two
Argentinean guests and I headed out early on our first drive together from Numbi
gate.
The morning
started out a bit cold but nothing could have warmed us up as much as a clan of
hyenas in the road with a few tiny brown coated babies investigating with mom
and sniffing our vehicle. After coming to the conclusion that the safari
vehicle is not edible they moved along. Not far down the road we were welcomed
by a wonderful sunrise with giraffes and our favorite sighting of the day a big
herd of sable crossing the road and grazing nearby.
Later we
visited a Dam in the area and got a peak at hippos getting out of the water to
lie down on the sand bank and warm up.
Because the day
wasn’t so warm yet they were able to enjoy 2 lionesses in the open doing what
they do best sleeping close to the road blissfully unaware of us sitting
watching them.
The afternoon
drive we found some Elephants whom we watched while busy being their destructive
self and pushing over trees.
Impalas were
everywhere to be seen with Red billed oxpeckers on their back removing ticks.
All in all our
first day was very rewarding.
27 September 2016
Today we
planned on doing a different area of the park and drive around the Sabie and
Sand river in hope to find a few water birds and crocs.
We managed to
find a lot of both. We got a few Crocodiles, a Grey heron, Galiath heron, Wooly
necked stalk and the best allot of Marabou Storks which was also the last of
the ugly five for us to find.
Baboons and
Vervet Monkey entertained us for hours playing, fighting and sorting out family
disputed while in Weaping Boebeans eating the seeds and new growths.
Our day ended
with a Mother and Calf White rhino grazing along which was very special with
the species rapid decline.
28 September 2016
We checked out
of camp and after breakfast started our last drive as a team.
Everything on
our last drive was just the cherry on the cake, from elephants to zebras to
waterbuck, reedbuck and kudus everywhere but what we didn’t expect was the
Leopard resting on a big rock overlooking his territory. And more not even 500m
further, on Napi Boulders 3 lions we lying under a bush.
All in all we didn’t
expect much and were rewarded to with soo much. Taking our time looking at
little Blue Headed Agamas to Steenboks not just chasing after big species.
Which is the key to coming on a safari.
