On safari With Amanda From 6 October 2016

6 October 2016

After a very successful full day yesterday we decided to take it easy and do a morning and afternoon drive.

A little bit chilly, but, with temperature set to reach 36° you could feel the warmth in the air.

Along the road we came across a herd of zebras with the smallest foal I'd ever seen it was totally adorable, sticking very close to its mum. We watched for a while moving off onto one of the dirt roads. Lovely giraffes, Donnas favorite, and nice elephants. 

After lunch and a siesta we headed to mestle dam and saw lovely fish eagles and hippos. A very scenic drive, Donna happy to chat and take in the amazing scenery.

7 October 2016

Our last drive this morning and it was a stunningly warm morning. 

On one of the roads we watched a small herd of Elephants cross, the baby running quickly after its mum! It's just nice to sit and watch these beautiful animals. Further down we saw a mother rhino and it's calf and behind them in the distance a herd of sable antelope.  

Lots of birds on our trip.... bateleur eagles, lilac breasted rollers, tawny eagles, blue waxbill and glossy starlings amongst others.

I dropped Lesley and Donna off for their panorama tour after a lovely time in the best place on earth.

On Safari With Mark From 6 October 2016

6 October 2016

This morning we set off back to Kruger after spending some quality time at the rehabilitation center and both clients understanding what we doing for each species here in SA.

We had a full day ahead as we drive south searching for different animals.

Our 2 highlights happened to be in the late afternoon whereby we found a male leopard that had just caught a bushbuck and had started opening it up to remove the entrails. We sat watching this for approximately 30min and as time was an issue we had to move on. This after he had dragged the antelope closer to the base of a marola tree. I was pretty sure that it would drag it up into the tree but unfortunately we couldn't stay any longer.

The second highlight was on our return to camp, we found a herd of Sable. This was fantastic and guests could get great photos of the last sunshine on their bodies. With the soft lights it was a really "Out of Africa" experience and I'm sure many memories of this great trip will be remembered.

7 October 2016

Unfortunately only enough time for 1 highlight as we had to drop the guests for their travels back to JHB.

This didn't stop me for looking for the 3 male Cheetah . Imagine my surprise when the road I was traveling on had the 3 brothers and since Cristina had arrived it was one animal she desperately wanted to see. This was a fantastic way to end the safari and although they were a bit far from the road, we still achieved what we wanted to do.

So with proud title holders of the magnificent 7 it was time to return them to JHB for flights back to Switzerland.

On Safari Wth Kara From 3 October 2016

3 October 2016

After checking in at our camp, Lawrence, Stacey and I started off with our first drive in Kruger.

Our first animal was spotted by Stacey, a big herd of Impalas grazing along the road from there I was happy to discover that anything small and fluffy will make her happy and Lawrence who’s favorite animal is an Elephant had no expectations therefore we saw loads.

We found masses of those two species and in between were surprised by a lot of pregnant Zebra's and Kudu's with the rainy season approaching.

4 October 2016

They definitely brought the cold weather with them from the UK but that luckily didn't keep the animals from appearing close to the road.

Our highlights was the two teenage White Rhinos who we could watch for quite a while and then see them cross the road.

Later we were surrounded by a huge herd of Buffalo's. Then the amazing spot by Stacey was a incredible female leopard lying on a termite mound in the shade of a Jackal berry waiting for the sun to go down. Keeping a watchful eye on any snack that might stroll by unaware of her.

5 October 2016

Early in the morning while the doe was still on the grasses we got a heads up on 2 cheetahs and being my first in a while we had some celebrations on the vehicle early on. We visited the river areas of the Reserve and there in the heat of the day we found them watching a Stampede of Elephants playing in the water even climbing on top of one another.

Our day ended with a pair of Lions mating in the open.

6 October 2016

Our last few hours together we got to add a few new species to our adventure which were a baby Reedbuck with mom, a Martial eagle, a Rock Monitor and a Blue Headed Agama.

All in all nature did not disappoint us.

On Safari With Amanda From 4 October 2016

4 October 2016

Today I collect 2 new guests, Donna from Singapore and lindsey. 

We arrived at Nkambeni and after lunch and a siesta my guests went on a sunset drive.

The highlight of their sundowner was the 2 leopards they saw! One was relaxing on a termite mound and the other one they saw on the way back to camp... slowly walking in the road towards Nkambeni camp, very lucky. 

5 October 2016

We decided to do a full day today as tomorrow the temperature is set to reach 38° so nicer to do a drive in comfortable temperatures. 

Driving slowly along albesini we saw a few cars ahead, Indicating there was something good ahead..2 cheetahs to be precise! Very lucky sighting seeing as there's less than 300 left!

After spending some time with the cheetahs we went to skukuza for coffee. 

A short drive along eloff road gave a brief visual of a leopard on the other side of the river. 

After lunch we decided to head back to camp along Doispan road, a good decision as roughly 4 kms along we came across 2 mating leopards, incredible to see. We sat and watched as they lay in the shade, as it was getting quite hot, my guests happy and we drove off as it seemed the honeymoon couple were having a siesta.

At the dam we came across elephants swimming, hippos lying in the sun, crocodile resting and lovely impala coming down to drink. Not more than 500m from the dam we came across another honeymoon couple, lions this time!

An incredible day in the Kruger for my guests and tomorrow is another day with possible surprise ahead.