Aat&Elly-Story 11 - Picasso & Friends (AWD)

[Alf]

[Pumbaa]

In fact a more than once in a lifetime experience, Aat

and it always shows that travelling through the park is not that necessary - Simply choose an interesting sighting and look what might come around as well

WoW so much

[aat]

Thanks Pumbaa !!
It felt like watching a NG programm but it was real this time.

Just noticed that my story about the Leopard (near Mopani) has been published in Rapport , a south african "newspaper"
link

http://www.netwerk24.com/Nuus/Omgewing/ ... m-20160305

In fact a more than once in a lifetime experience, Aat

and it always shows that travelling through the park is not that necessary - Simply choose an interesting sighting and look what might come around as well

WoW so much

[Richprins]

Ja, aat! Thanks to Hanti for that story, and good your website got a mention there! Maybe you can link your website to AW in return?

[aat]

Done !!!

Ja, aat! Thanks to Hanti for that story, and good your website got a mention there! Maybe you can link your website to AW in return?

[aat]

*** Travel Tales ***
Trip to Kruger NP 2015 (October – November) New series of Stories

08 – Breakfast time with Cheetah + Kill

Time to join again… so welcome on this drive somewhere in the southern region
We left very early and just after 5 minutes we met a large number of Wilddogs. I will tell about this later on in another story about these fascinating animals.
This story is about a Big Cat , Cheetah !

After driving some time and not really knowing where to go we suddenly saw a spotted cat , leopard ? no…. a Cheetah. A male and a real big boy !

First photo I made and looking through the lens I saw his face was “bloody”

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Results of a fight ? He was laying down near a tree and looking around all the time…

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Standing up…walking away a bit, turned , came closer and sitting down… those eyes…

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After some time he was up his feet again and at a distance of about 20 meter he walked slowly to his “target”

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His breakfast … he killed a Kudu. So close we could see how impressive he was, I think we have never seen such a big cheetah before

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Cheetah eating… so did we… breakfast together. We could see it was a good sized Kudu he took down.

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At that time just one other car near us enjoying this sighting. Elly and I just realized it was the first time we saw a Cheetah with a fresh kill and feeding.

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Licking before feeding…

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Watching him for some time he was looking around all the time, avery few seconds , guess he was afraid for hyena’s taking away his breakfast.
Sunrise was covering this scene with beautiful light

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So close we could hear him feeding and sitting there at pole position looking at this beautiful Cheetah.

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Almost an hour together and I was hoping he gave me that look into these special eyes…

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So far it was quiet, but then… tourist vehicles arrived …driving far too fast , lots of noise
We finished our breakfast and the Cheetah walked away from his kill to take a nap…with a full belly

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We moved on with again a big big smile on our faces….

End of this drive , hope you liked it



Aat & Elly

[harrys]

That's a great sighting with wonderful photos

[Alf]

That's really a big boy. Taking down a kudu

[Flutterby]

Wow, must have a been a big boy to take down a kudu! Great sighting and pics.

[Richprins]

Astounding again, aat! I also think it's a male!

Unusual pics with the backlighting, indeed!

Where exactly was that?