Africa Wild

steamtrainfan wrote:Jislaaik - more lion and leopard with kills this time just to make a change of scenery.

Stunning photos again.

A change is coming STF as we leave for Biyamiti and don't do an evening drive I'm not sure if the pics are that hot though. Cameras give me the creeps

Richprins wrote:Ja, no comments anymore!


the stern Afrikaans type

What does that mean, totiboy!?

The baboon is checking the car for supplies...a beautiful specimen, I must say!

Scarface must surely be dead by now after nightly attacks. I wonder if he didn't hang out with tourists for safety? Or worse... That is one that should be shot, I'm afraid...

The leopard after that doesn't look right either...

But certainly the predators are pumping during the drought, reproduction wise!

A stern Afrikaans type Did you ever watch "Trompie en die boksombende" I'm sure you would have....... Well Trompie's Dad was one No nonsense discipline

I'm not sure beautiful is the word I would use for a male boon.

I also said to the Cow that Scarface would be history by now. There were some serious scraps going on between leopard on the H1-3 as they all looked battle worn I said to all at the time that Scarface reminded me of the one that chowed the ranger on alpha loop.

5th Lower Sabie to Biyamiti

We were moving to Biyamiti for 1 night today, but there was a lack of enthusiasm to pack the car at first light, so we decided to do the causeway thing quickly and then return to camp, pack and then head up to the Skukuza Golf Club for chow before heading down the H1-1/H3 towards Biyamiti.

Just outside camp the Cow got on the board with a lioness on a morning patrol and then a few more locals having breakfast popped up.







Around halfway down the causeway we bumped into Heksie again and she told us about a leopard in a drain just north of the causeway, so the blinkers went on and we headed 2km up the road, but the darn leopard had decided to hide in the drain, so we tried the waiting game again, but that’s a nightmare on the H4-1 as there’s just too much traffic, so every 30 seconds a “what do you see” pulls in which is too frustrating for me that early in the morning, so we decided to rather drive on a little further before turning back to camp.

1km further at the Nwatinwambu Bridge our morning leopard showed up which relaxed the previous leopard frustration.





He was parking off in the morning sun, so I kept informing the clan that he was going to move shortly to keep everybody attentive, but 10 minutes later I was also daydreaming so we still got caught out as he moved and missed some of it.





The leopard looked like he was going to cool off in his new spot for some time and 2 OSV’s had arrived, so we turned and ducked back down the causeway towards camp.

Around halfway down the causeway I spotted something in the distance through the Cow’s window and shouted in panic “2 Leopard! Take pics!”, but the size and the morning sun in my face resulted in a mistaken identity which caused a mild pelican as it was 2 lion cubs.



We packed quickly and decided to visit the H10 hyena den 5km up the road before heading up the H4-1 to towards the golf club, however just outside Lower Sabie we stopped first for a boon centurion who seemed comfortable and a size croc sunning itself next to the H10 Bridge.





We never got to take pics of the local hyena as 2 secretary birds showed up on the other side of the road and we hadn’t seen them for a while, so I roared off up and down trying to get pics of them much to the confusion of other vehicle occupants who thought I was onto something more important.





To be continued

I have run out of words to describe your sightings.

Leopard, lioness, lion cubs, elephant and all before breakfast.

Morning leopard! .........and what a leopard

I like secretary birds a lot

Yor leopard luck is uncrdible, Bushcraft,

and even scarface you saw twice

and also lots of lion sightings - Those cubs are gorgeous especially the Junior Rambo

Bushcraft wrote:

leachy wrote:

judging from the photo of mazithi it was a windy day filled with sightings ??????????

I think you need to read pages 14 &15 leachy. You can't just look at the pictures

on page 11 & 12 you describe the windy conditions....

i am just trying to dispel the myth that

"the animals bugger off when the wind blows"

Great shots again BC, sorry have been MIA due to internet restrictions on the fair usage class thanks to Moshie 150 gigs later

steamtrainfan wrote:I have run out of words to describe your sightings.

Leopard, lioness, lion cubs, elephant and all before breakfast.

Thanks for popping in again STF and for your kind comments

Lisbeth wrote:Morning leopard! .........and what a leopard

I like secretary birds a lot

Thanks Lisbeth Yes, this leopard looked healthy Many aren't interested in secretary birds and looked at me as if I was mad