There was quite a bit of rain in the Park last night but the Earth is so dry that the water was absorbed so quickly that there was no moisture to be seen. It’s a strange landscape out there at the moment with so much scorched earth and smouldering trees yet mist in...
Highlight of today was a great cheetah sighting in Nyalazi quarry near Masinda camp. It was a perfect male specimen and he was strutting his stuff for us big time !! Eventually he crossed right in front of our vehicle on his way into the bush. Earlier we had another...
Sometimes we get the feeling that the animals in the Park know that it’s weekend time and the traffic volume will be high, so they decide to go away for the weekend themselves !! Today was a bit like that although there were quite a few elephants around in the south...
Hyenas are always good to see and this morning we got three of these amazing carnivores before we had even got to the main Umfolozi Bridge. A little later near view point 17 there were 2 lions and 1 lioness chilling out looking over the river. We heard later that they...
The bush is sometimes a very frustrating place to be ! Today we had lunch at Umganu picnic site and heard a leopard barking / coughing repeatedly for an hour and a half from across the Umfolozi river. Try as we may we could not spot him but there was no doubt he was...
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