Lions On The Loose

[PJL]

They all look like young animals

Great sighting....again

I think the first lioness was older - she didn't have the youngster spots like the other. So probably a mom and her 2 sub-adult offspring. We wondered whether they were part of the Vurhami pride and had temporarily moved away from the main group

Lovely sighting without stress

They are still quite spotted, cute!

Yep it was a nice relaxed sighting once the lions stopped charging all over the place

Very lucky indeed

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

Once we got the right side of the lions and had them walking towards us the light was fantastic

Great luck again, Peej!

I love the airborne version!

And nice to see them not just sleeping!

Flying lions... new species

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

We sure did this particular morning Roger

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

Bum shots to begin with as we struggled to keep pace with them
Nice of them to calm down a bit for us

[PJL]

Fri 29th June contd

We turned onto the S130 and not far along the road look who we found



The baby giraffe from the sunset drive had survived its first night and was looking much more stable on its legs



We also caught a good sighting of a burchells coucal warming up



Driving along there was a strange-looking object in the road that I swerved to avoid. It was no more than about 4cm in size, and from the car we couldn't quite work out what it was, but the pics suggest it was some kind of inflated frog or toad



At the northern end of the S130 we had a hyena pop past the car



We were in two minds whether to go along the H4-2 or continue along dirt roads via the S137 & S28. The dirt road option won and along the S137 we had some nice sightings of general game, as well as a purple roller and what like some kind of squirrel mexican standoff











As we moved on to the S28 we enjoyed quite a big bull elephant slowly sauntering towards us. He was in musth but still appeared to be very chilled

[Klipspringer]

The inflated marshmallow is a bushveld rainfrog, very cool find

The giraffe on the second day looks quite well adapted, amazing how quick they learn

[Lisbeth]

Nice to see the small giraffe much more secure on the long legs

Nice coucal

[Alf]

The squirrel standoff is funny

[Richprins]

Yes, Peej! That is the "Game of Thrones" frog, unusual to see in the middle of the day!

Ai we had a thread on it somewhere in the old days!

It doesn't have to be so swollen up all the time!

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Lovely to see the giraffe survive, I suspect it is a a nightmare for the parents on the first night!

[Mel]

That blown up bullfrog looks impressive - even to me. I'm sure he'll have his way with the ladies

Lovely to see the baby giraffe again

[Lisbeth]

By frogs, the big one is normally the female

[Mel]

Okay, then she'll have her way with the men

[Lisbeth]

Very likely