Browns in Kruger September 2019

[Alf]

And the spots continued

How lucky

[Bushcraft]

How many leopard are there on that river????

Great pose on the tree stump there!

Ja, BC, cold and wind are not great for game viewing, as you can see, but better than boiling sun!

I wonder if people get out at the Tablets still or not?

Ja, there are plenty on the Sabie at this time of the year. We found 8 different leopard just on the H4-1 side and I know of 3 more we never managed to find and there's definitely more than that Drive it in February, March, April & May and you will think there are no leopard on it

That cold wind for sightings

Ja, people still get out at the Tablets

[Bushcraft]

Astounding... normal people count the lion sightings, the KZN Brown Clan their leopards

So, this morning was still pretty successful. Am quite curious to learn how the next days went -
as in a) if the weather forecast was correct and in b) if so, if yours was too
Although I should hope not otherwise it might produce some pelicans
(I just love that saying!)

Leopard is a challenge, lion one can lose count I have always been interested in leopard and it seems to have spread to a few more in the family Although if I asked everyone in the family what their favourite sighting of the trip was, I doubt they would say a leopard

a) is correct, b) correct in 1 way, but not another

Do you use the word "pelican" now

[Bushcraft]

And the spots continued

How lucky

Ja, I hope they don't become too monotonous for those checking this TT out

[Bushcraft]

23rd Lower Sabie continued

We sat with the S79 leopard for around 20 minutes hoping that he would go for a chow, but his eyes closed and there was no movement, so we decided that as we hadn’t done any of the S21 that we would drive to Mhlupheka waterhole around 10km in off the tar side and then come back to see if the S79 leopard had woken up.

Around 1km from the waterhole we found a lioness cruising next to the road and then another 5 laying around about 20m from the road.

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Minutes later a lioness walked in from another direction and she was followed by a male lion.

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[Bushcraft]

The male was a faulty chap and he caused a small commotion when he arrived in front of the lionesses and it almost looked like he was having a tantrum because he wanted the 1 lioness alone and now she had re-joined the rest of the pride.

Once the growling and snarling had stopped he stood checking us out with a dumb look on his face for a few minutes before flopping down next to the lionesses.

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Flat lions can get boring fairly quickly, so we moved on, however minutes later familiar spots popped up through the twigs and I got overexcited again for nothing because the leopard had no intention of running off and as we positioned ourselves for a better view he went to sleep.

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We decided to park off and wait for this leopard to wake up and while waiting a few more cars arrived and stopped. The one vehicle had some seriously excited occupants who started climbing out of the sun roof and climbing onto the windows, etc and suddenly the Cow lost it “Get back in your car! You are breaking the rules and there’s a leopard right over there!”

I now expected a drama from the male driver, but instead everybody sheepishly got back into the car and they drove off rather quickly. My ford ranger is exactly the same colour as the Sanparks vehicles, so I think it confused a few people on this trip because people were making way for us at certain sightings which is normally not the case. The 2nd hand dealer actually gave us R30 000 off the car because nobody in KZN wanted such a kak colour, however it works for us.

More and more cars started to arrive now and the leopard just continued to sleep, so we decided to head back to the S79 leopard to see if he was awake and he was up and about as we arrived, but he stood around for a few minutes and then collapsed and went to sleep again.

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To be continued

[Mel]

Do you use the word "pelican" now

I actually do

[Mel]

That is one FAT lion! And he was seriously in the mood for making babies

Leopard head count went up once again Although they behaved just as boring as those lions

Excellent choice of car, it seems

[Pumbaa]

And again leopards and leapards, and lions and hyenas

You really cannot complain, Bushcraft

I do need no five star menue "peace" is simply enough

[Alf]

Even more spots

Now i walk around and just keep seeing spots