New Territory

[Flutterby]

A great sighting and wonderful pics as usual!

[Pumbaa]

Awesome pictures, PJL,

and for sure a more than wonderful sighting too

[Richprins]

Very interesting scenery that...is it indigenous scrub, Peej?

And the farmhouse in the background?

Lovely shots and activity!

[Lisbeth]

Looks as if there were a lot of lions around

[PJL]

Thanks Flutts, Pumbaa, RP & Lis

Very interesting scenery that...is it indigenous scrub, Peej?

And the farmhouse in the background?

Lovely shots and activity!

The land in that section of the park was cleared for farmland years ago, so it's only starting to grow back a bit. The farm buildings in the background are beyond the park boundary - you can even see traffic on the N2 from where we were parked

The feast continued except for a pause whilst this youngster was captivated by a plane overhead en-route to JHB



Duffy then popped out to keep the youngsters in check



They had obviously been eating in a variety of places during the day, as one youngster went for a wander and came back with some padkos from down the road



Duffy wasn't content with how the carcass was lying so spent some time wrestling with it until it was more to her satisfaction













All the excitement was a bit much for one of the lads and he fell asleep in his ribs



However once Duffy had moved away he decided to try copy the wrestling moves himself, but the adult lion strength isn't quite in the boys yet





Josie finally made an appearance but fairly quickly flopped down to sleep with some of the others





We had been with the lions for about an hour and a half, so decided that it would be a good plan to take in some loops in the south of the park and see whether the lions might move for water later in the evening

TBC

[Lisbeth]

A wonderful lion sighting with everybody moving around.....mostly

[Mel]

I love that curious face where the kiddo is looking at the plane

Nice lion sighting anyways

Doesn't the latest of Josie's litter have names yet?

[Richprins]

Beautiful studies again, Peej!

Trains, planes and automobiles!

[Flutterby]

You really got some lovely shots!

[Pumbaa]

WoW PJL,

what luck you had with this stunning sighting - Needless to say that your shots are incredible