1st Skukuza to Talamati
We weren’t very energetic this morning as it had been a late night due to our meet with Penny and Bobby, the weather had changed again and a little drizzle was falling intermittently and I could have blindfolded myself with a shoe lace because of the previous evening’s overindulgence of whiskey.
I’m not used to functioning with a hangover anymore, so just wanted to curl up in a ball and go back to sleep, but we were moving to Talamati so the car packing story was a major mission and we only left camp just before 7am.
The plan was to head down to Lower Sabie and then up the H10 towards Talamati.
The H4-1 was again quiet and we only stopped a few times for some of the normal gang.
The S79/H4-1 intersection again caused a debate, but we decided to take the causeway and at the first little loop spotted a familiar car amongst a few other cars.
It was Heksie and some mates, so I pulled up next to her and she informed us about lions in the riverbed, but I left the pics to the Cow and rats while Heksie and I chatted about things.
The lions were cruising through the grass and reeds so it was frustrating to get pics and then Heksie informed us that the Lubyelubye leopard was hanging around, so I quickly said cheers and reversed out of the loop.
The Lubyelubye leopard was fast asleep, but he had gathered a rather large crowd in the little dirt loop next to the rocks, so we decided to avoid the crowds and ducked up the tar to a spot where one can look down on the rocks.
As I was positioning the car the leopard woke up and moved to another spot to collapse but this new spot was closer to us, so we scored a luck.
Around 10 minutes later a car with 3 men in arrived and they were completely out of their tree, hence started to loudly chirp everybody “what do you see” and then got out their car to have a better look. Fortunately an OSV driver started tuning them and they returned to their car, but then the OSV driver got on his radio and more OSV’s started to arrive.
The 1 OSV squeezed in right next to us and then loudly started explaining to his clueless guests as to where the leopard was, which amazed me because it was right in front of them, but some couldn’t see it after a minute of explanation, which caused further loud explanations, so my hangover, Predisone induced temper started to boil over and the mumblings started.
“It’s right in front of you, so shut up, look and grow a brain”
This got the Cow going “Hey, be polite!”
The leopard suddenly woke up and seemed very interested in something up river, so we could get some pics which distracted me and it resulted in the clueless crowd spotting him finally, hence things became more peaceful again.
The leopard then again repositioned but behind a bush, so I plotted an escape route, reversed out of the crowd, turned and headed towards the H10 Bridge which produced the normal locals.
To be continued
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I will try and mix in some birds, but they were few and far between this trip and I can only assume due to the drought and no seeds, etc 
Ja, felt like a teenager when I went to bed, but felt 30 years older when I woke 
