Lions On The Loose

[Bushcraft]

A new born giraffe , great sighting that

The spotted eagle owl in the road is also a cool sighting

Civets

White tailed mongoose I have never seen 1 in KNP, but 4 sightings in Imfolozi

Another great sighting of the Vurhami pride

[PJL]

Lovely light, hey Peej?

Not a bad diversion while sitting in a queue!

It was great light RP
A nice diversion when sitting on the bridge itself, but strangely you couldn't see them from up the road behind the entrance gates... so the people waiting there must have been getting very frustrated

Great night drive sightings, especially the mongoose.

Perfect light on those lions!

Thanks Flutts... that mongoose was nice to see

Golden light

Absolutely... timing couldn't have been better! I wonder what (if anything) the first people in the gate got to see of them

Beautiful lighting

Sure was Mel

Are there only youngsters in the pride?

Yeah we're not too sure of the dynamics of this pride, but it does have a lot of young sub-adult lions at the moment

Great start to the days trip and wonderful light

Thanks Roger, we couldn't have asked for a better start

A new born giraffe , great sighting that

The spotted eagle owl in the road is also a cool sighting

Civets

White tailed mongoose I have never seen 1 in KNP, but 4 sightings in Imfolozi

Another great sighting of the Vurhami pride

Thanks Bushcraft... there were plenty of fun sightings over the course of the sunset drive as well as this morning

[PJL]

Fri 29th June contd

Once officially into the park we travelled up the H4-2 with a plan to go up the S130 again. Everything was rather quiet after the excitement of the Vurhami pride, but we stopped to see some elephant a few km before the entrance to the S130



We continued on our way and fortunately I happened to be looking the right direction to see a lioness charging out the bush on our left and stop in time as she dashed over the road right in front of us! She was on a mission and very quickly disappeared into the bush on our right



We drove slowly on to see if she would pop out anywhere else and then found a young boy hop out and run along the road



The lioness had gone back across the road behind us now and we caught sight of another lioness somewhere in the bushes before the first one popped out again



It seemed like they were trying to flush something/anything out for a bit of breakfast

After a few minutes whatever they were chasing seemed to have disappeared and they all came out onto the road in different places... generally moving the same direction as us



The lionesses continued to search around a bit, but didn't seem to rush off like before









By this point two other cars had arrived behind us, so when I got the chance I went past the lions to try get some pics of them walking towards us







The boy turned out to be quite a poser











They all met up again off the road and started moving further away into the bush



With only two other cars at a lion sighting on a tar road in the middle of the school holidays we figured we had ridden our luck well. The lions were now very hard to see, so we decided it was time to continue on our way

[Lisbeth]

They all look like young animals

Great sighting....again

[Klipspringer]

Lovely sighting without stress

They are still quite spotted, cute!

[Alf]

Very lucky indeed

[Flutterby]

You were really lucky with the lighting at your lion sightings!!

[Richprins]

Great luck again, Peej!

I love the airborne version!

And nice to see them not just sleeping!

[RogerFraser]

Active Lions very exciting .You definitely seem to have the Luck with the Lions

[Mel]

Quite a few bum shots here But luckily also a marvellous lion sighting