We sat with the lions for a few minutes, but some ellies arrived again and the lions slowly moved further down towards the riverbed, so we continued towards the causeway.

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About halfway down the S79 we met a guy parked off in a well-known leopard spot and as we slowly cruised past, he seemed to be frantically looking for something, so I asked him and he stated that he had briefly seen 2 leopard cubs on a rock through the bush, so we also got frantic.
“Where, which rock?!”
This turned into a major mission of reversing, then forward and then reverse again as we tried to find a view of the “rock”. Eventually we settled on a spot with a limited view, switched off and waited.
Around 10 minutes later both cubs appeared for a few seconds
“THERE!” “Where’s the camera?” “WHY IS THE LENS CAP ON?”
“@#%^$#”
The cubs disappeared again before we could get a pic, so the wait continued.
Another 15 minutes past and we all started to get distracted so when they appeared again, we stuffed it up again, but I just fired a shot off without even looking in the viewfinder and managed a blurred semi proof pic of the rear end of 1 cub as it disappeared.
The blob in the middle of the pic below, a little to the right, which looks like the back of a pangolin, is the 1 leopard cub.

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I was now highly frustrated and tensions were building in the car because it was also getting boiling hot, so we decided to give up on the wait and headed back towards Lower Sabie.
The lions just north of Lower Sabie in the riverbed were still around, but the traffic had built up, so we just continued past.
We stopped at Lower Sabie for the loo and I fuelled up with diesel while plotting the next move. After a negotiation we decided to head down the H4-2 to the S28 northern entrance as it’s a spot for another leopard local, but instead of a leopard we found another mating lion couple.

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