The leopard was checking around in the riverbed, and it was clearly obvious that it was about to move.
“Keep your eyes on the leopard! It’s going to move!”
A few seconds later a car stopped next to us
“What do you see!”
The Cow started rattling off about a rock in the riverbed, so I turned quickly and said “Leopard!”, but as I turned back the leopard started to move
“S@*t, it’s moving!”
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“Where’s it now, WTF………THERE!”
Now the mission to follow the leopard was on and the other car pulled in behind us. The leopard was moving north through the bush next to the road, so we pulled over to the side and slowly drove along parallel to it.
Minutes later a fancy car started to approach from the north and continued forward until they were 5m in front of us, stopped and started waving their hands. I started to point towards the leopard so that they could understand why we were trying to move slowly along next to the sighting, but they suddenly sped forward and as they went around us the 4 occupants started screaming at us.
“Learn how to drive you F@%*”
I was in shock for a second and then the penny dropped and the rush of blood to the head took over. I forgot about the leopard, slammed the car in reverse and took off backwards down the road as fast as our car could go because we were now about to have a major incident.
The larnies in the fancy car spotted me coming at full speed, so they floored it down the road. I realised that I couldn’t catch them in reverse so turned the car around.
“They will stop at Lower Sabie, so I will get them in the car park!”
The Cow was jabbering nonstop in my ear fortunately and eventually convinced me to give up on trying to catch them, so I turned and went back towards where we had last seen the leopard, but the leopard was gone, which only made my agro pelican larger.
We drove in silence for a few more minutes and then Albert chirped “Dad, you lost it hey”, which got us laughing again.
We only stopped for pics twice more on the way back to Skukuza as Bushpig found an Eagle owl and I spotted a lion in the riverbed.
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We arrived back at Skukuza after 11am, so it had been a long morning for us. I had some work to do, the Cow decided to dump a few days’ worth of camera pics, and the kids had schoolwork to catch up on, so we ended up staying in camp until around 3:30pm.
For our afternoon drive we decided to cruise up the H1-2 from Skukuza until the H12 and found all the normal suspects, but it was still very dark and gloomy, so we didn’t take pics.
We stopped on the H12 bridge and looked around, but the area was very quiet, so I mumbled that we should just head back to camp and call it a day even though we still had plenty of time, but after some negotiation we decided to go down the H4-1 until the S79 causeway and then return to camp.
It was still very quiet, until just before the end of the causeway where there’s a little dead-end loop which we had been exploring each time when in the area because the leopard cubs we had seen for a few seconds earlier on the trip were in that area.
There was a car stopped in the loop already, so I approached slowly because there isn’t much room and as I stopped Bushpig squawked
“LEOPARD CUB!”
I instantly got over excited because I couldn’t see anything and then the Cow spotted it which made me even more excited, but after some explanation from Bushpig I spotted it in a tree, however then more squawking as a 2nd leopard cub was spotted in the same tree.
In the pic below, the 1st leopard is at the bottom of image just left of centre and the 2nd leopard is at the top of the image just right of centre through the branches.
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thank you for making me 
in the car...you'll get less aggro! 
Wow two Leopards together . And Lions and and Owl you did have some good sightings .
