We parked off at the hide for more than half an hour, but we had told the kitchen assistant the previous evening that we would be back in camp at around 9:30am to 10am for breakfast as he cooks the bacon, sausages, etc, for you if you supply him the stock the evening before and then he cooks the eggs when you arrive, so we had to make tracks back towards camp and stopped for pics of a junior giraffe and more rhino while on route.
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As we pulled into Gqoyeni car park we heard boons shouting/alarm calling, so we hurried down the long walkway towards the main communal veranda/viewing deck/hide. Albert was in front of me and around halfway down the walkway the boons let rip again, so she hit the brakes to let me go in front because there’s no fences and she’s experienced these shouting boon situations before.
The boons were in the hide, on the roof of the communal lounge, in the trees all around camp and they were going wild. The manager/guide was already on the veranda with the kitchen assistant, so I immediately asked him if he had seen what they were alarm calling at, but he was under the impression that it was 2 rival troops shouting at each other across the river. I wasn’t so sure as we have been amongst boons behaving this way many times before and it was usually a predator, therefore I scanned the area for 60 seconds, but never spotted anything, so went into the communal lounge to put the camera/cooler box, etc, down, but the Cow was still scanning the area and seconds later she let rip.
“LIONS!”
“What! Where?”
There were lions cruising around opposite the veranda viewing deck so we skidded around to grab cameras and at the same time the boons also noticed the lions again, so they started squawking like crazy all around us.
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Imfolozi and leopards 
We have only ever seen 1 leopard at Imfolozi and that was last year. 
