We had a great day in the bush today. There were plenty of elephants around, including a breeding herd with newborns near Mpila camp early on. A little later we came across 4 lions between markers 24 & 25 in the south. Just before that there was a leopard sighting...
It was a difficult day out there in the bush today. The weather was all over the place, alternating between warm, very cold, sunny and cloudy. At times the wind raged and then it became totally calm. It seems the animals were as bewildered as we were with all of this...
Sometimes it takes our overseas visitors to remind us how lucky we are to live in a country with so much open space around us and so many amazing animals in our Game Reserves. This was certainly the case today because what we thought was a pretty ordinary kind of day...
If a tour into the Park was a game of golf then today could be regarded as above par for the course !! In other words we had a good, if not spectacular day, compared with the weekend. There were several lion sightings and a big breeding elephant herd near marker 15...
What a weekend we had in the Park : A leopard sighting, 2 separate cheetah sightings, lions and elephants….and that was only on Saturday. On Sunday we had another even better leopard sighting, hyenas on a carcass, a black rhino and more elephants !! Needless to...
The first part of our tour today was quite productive, we saw elephants, hyenas, buffaloes and rhinos shortly after going into the northern section of the Park. After that we swung south again but did not have much luck all the way down to the White Umfolozi river at...
No blue Monday for us today !! Based on nothing more than a gut feel we headed north into the Hluhluwe section of the Park this morning and within a half an hour were rewarded with sightings of wild dogs, elephants and hyenas ! We then headed south and had good...
For the first few hours of our tour today it seemed as if all the animals had gone away for the weekend !! It just goes to show that we don’t understand them at all : It was cool and overcast, just the weather you would expect to find the predators on the hunt, but...
We had a mixed bag today : two good hyena sightings and a breeding elephant herd but no cats and poor general game !! The first hyena was trotting down the road near Masinda Lodge and the second one was trying to fight off a mass of vultures at the giraffe carcass...
A very quiet day in the Park today despite the cool and overcast weather. The lions that have been guarding the giraffe carcass near marker 17 in the south seem to have abandoned their prize and the hyenas and vultures are closing in for their share of the spoils....
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