Africa Wild

Lisbeth wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 3:56 pm Lovely LBRs

The two youngsters (lions ) are very handsome In general flat lions are not very exciting.

we were lucky that they sat up for us for a quick photo shoot

Richprins wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 6:13 pm Not bad at all, Rog!

Nice to see lions moving, and always good to get a grand sighting for supper!

I'm sure you had a

prefer to see them when they active of course a

So one recent change at Malelane camp is there is now a cattle grid on the gate so it is left open and you dont have to open and close it anymore which is in our eyes not a step forwards but anyway .

Leaving early morning on our last drive before exiting and going home we found an early morning visitor at the camp fence



We drove up the road and soon found more Lions .A Female a young Male and a young cub .Quite a strange mix






There were walking along the road and seemed a bit agitated maybe by the vehicles.






They soon left the road and headed into the bushes


We carried on our quick drive finding a Batleur


and a splash of colour


Down the river road we found some Hyenas that were cooling off in some puddles




and a big Marshal eagle


Our last sighting before leaving to drive home was a different road block :

Wow Roger,

what lion luck you had - love the shots in the morning light from the youngsters

and also the hyena from camp and for sure that two rhinos

What a lovely work trip this was

Not bad for last sightings

Great to see rhinos

You saw many lilac-breasted rollers

Lions again

A lofty martial

Roger

A grand last morning, Rog!

Plenty of teeth!

Lovely light on the lions there...

And looks like the rhino horns grow quite quickly!

Thanks very much for this report!