ossendryver wrote: ↑Mon May 28, 2012 9:51 am
Now it is getting dark and we have 1 hour to get to the gate.
We quickly turn on to the H1-1 and drive straight towards camp.
We didn't have time to pop into Transport Dam sadly.
We saw on the GPS that we have 20kms to spot all the nocturnal animals starting to wake up in the early evening. This seemed like so much time to have to spot eveything. It wasn't.
We saw basically nothing!
The GPS now said 2kms to get to the camp. This was now it for us for our first drive. Or so we thought!
We reach 1km to go and what do we see at 5:52pm.
A car stopped! Means only 1 thing at this time! CATS or DOGS!
We drive to where the car was stopped and we couldn't believe our eyes!
There it was, walking in the road!
A LEOPARD!
(They seem to know the exact time that the gates close so that we can't watch them for long)
Here are some pics:
From my phone:
And no, that wasn't enough!
I suddenly hear my dad say excitedly: "There's another one! There's another one!"
The whole car looked forward in time to see the second one walk quickly into the bush.
We all had decided to wait for the second one to meet up with the one still in the road. We made this decision with out even discussing it, no one wanted to leave!
It was so worth the wait!
From my phone:
After the 2 walked into the bush we had to leave straight to the camp, no exceptions!
We got in and we all still felt the adrenaline of seeing such an incredible sighting!
The first day had gone with a kicker!
Not only did we have an unbelievable sighting but that ticked off number 1 on our wishlist!!
On the first drive!
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