Africa Wild

Bushcraft wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2017 10:42 am

Around 5km down the S39 from Timbavati I spotted a movement in the road in front of us

“What’s that in the road?”

Silence…….

My eyes were seeing the animal, but the brain wasn’t making the connection and I was about to say “AWC?” when the Cow screamed “LEOPARD CUB” which caused me to stand on the brakes and pull off to the side of the road.

The cub then checked us and took off across the road, but fortunately hit the brakes before the grass and cameras went flying around.

“QUIET! Sit still!”

I slowly poked my camera out the window and snapped some pics.





The cub reacted straight away and it looked like it was going to bolt, but fortunately its butt got itchy which distracted it and the cub sat down again to attack the itch, but soon it looked like he/she was going to duck into the grass again, so I decided to move slowly forward, but then my camera wouldn’t be an option.

“I can’t drive and take pics, so all get ready when I move”

I slowly started to move forward and the cub initially didn’t react, so I started to stop, but seconds later it jumped up and ducked into the grass. Fortunately Hawkeyes and The Cow managed a few pics each with their point and shoot cameras which saved the day.





I slowly moved forward to the spot where the cub had disappeared, but we couldn’t see anything, however seconds later Bushpig started chirping “Ah cute!”

“What are you going on about?”

She looked at me confused and then said “The cub on the branch”

The Cow and I hadn’t seen it, but the cub had climbed up a tree next to us and was sitting on the lowest branch and Bushpig had assumed, as it was so obvious, that the rest of us had seen it.

“#$^*!! Take pics”

But unfortunately the movement of raising the cameras gave the cub another skrik and it bailed out the tree. I frantically drove backwards and forwards for 10 minutes, but we never picked the cub up again.