a slow start,cats in abundance and a terrific farewell gift*

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and a group of 26 giraffes. Unfortunately it was not possible to get them all in the pic.

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On the access road to the camp a hyena was enjoying the evening sun



Maybe it was the same one that came to the waterhole 3 hours later.

While we were still braaing, the power went off. Thus, we enjoyed our first meal with candle- and firelight.



At about 9pm I saw a shadow and turned on the flashlight. A huge male leopard was passing by and disappeared between units 1 and 2. We heard him coughing in the parking lot but when we got there we only saw Charlie Fax disappearing quickly into her den. The leopard had gone behind the camp attendants unit already. There was not even time to grab the camera but we think it must have been Dakotah.

That night the temperatures got down to -3,5 degrees and we nearly froze to death in our beds.

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30.09.2013

This morning I tried to download some pics from the trapcam which caused some problems. Thus we left for the morning drive only at 8 am. We drove down towards Auchterlonie.

Our first sighting were some willies and springboks. At Rooibrak two lanner falcons had caught a dove and were busy getting rid oft he feathers

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Between Montrose and Batulama Lisette was busy with her breakfast. We watched her for about 45 minutes while she was eating

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scanning the neighbourhood

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going to the toilet

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walking around

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cleaning herself

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and finally disappearing over the ridge.

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We continued our drive to Auchterlonie and saw a bateleur with breakfast