
who just had found a very ripe marula and started to feed on same – Same must have tasted extreme yummy as the squirrel did not annoy our presence and for us it was then also time to get something to bite and so we three were finally munching on something.

A swaison francolin also arrived obviously checking out whether same could get hold of some crumbs and we even watched a pair of saddle billed storks in the river bed but unfortunately both stayed the whole sighting too far away for some decent shots. We also met another steenbok

and a kudu bull who was a bit shy and only dared a view whilst he was still hiding behind a tree,

also lots of resting wildebeests came across and we even spotted a beautiful bushbuck in the thick vegetation near Skukuza.

As it was still pretty early and far too early to check already in we only stopped for a short body break in Skukuza and also filled up the car only to leave again into the direction of the S65 via the H1-1 as we normally do the drive the other way round we decided today to discover the S65 from this direction and we only drove a couple of meters on that road a car with three young guys raved from a lion sightings of three lionesses in a riverbed. I knew that spot they explained to us but this was in fact closer and nearly at the end of this road.
Another car also from this direction stopped and told us about the lions but the driver topped this with a cheetah sighting who was strolling on that road with some crisscross here and there. Well the cheetah we did not met but the lionesses could not be overlooked and they were sleeping right in the shade in the riverbed of the N’waswitshaka which still carried a bit of water and on the causeway there was plenty of space and gladly this was one of the wider ones so you did not had to clear same when another car wanted to pass and so we positioned our car, switched the engine off and let the cameras do their work.

When we arrived the lionesses were still in sleeping modus and so not much happened and as close to where we parked a larger puddle have attracted some birds and we of course had also fun in watching them quenching their thirst.

All in all it were in total 5 lionesses and this we also could identify when staying a bit longer as when they were in their sleeping position bodies close to bodies you mistakenly noticed only three of them

From time to time one of them lifted her head to check out what was going on, yawned and went back into sleeping modus

and one of the lionesses decided that the place where her sisters were lying was a bit more comfortable or more shady and so she joined them
