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Re: Kgalagadi Cheetah Sightings
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2022 7:12 am
by GavinW
Great sighting
We are back in the park in 5 weeks time and can't wait.
Is the grass pretty long after all the rain?
Re: Kgalagadi Cheetah Discussion
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2022 1:43 pm
by Mel
Hi Gavin, yep, the grass was pretty high in places. I found the lower Nossob not as bad as the stretch between Uri and Kamfers. In the upper Auob also some stretches with very high grass, but also lower parts.
It was hard to see anything smaller than one of the big cats. We had trailed Hanri and her cubs and I swear, if we hadn't known they were there, we would've missed them.
Just the tips of the ears visible sometimes!
Any smaller animal that was in the road and rushed into the grass on either side of the road could not be found again. Swallowed by the vegetation.
There were still good sightings possible with the cats not too keen to walk the the high grass either. So often we'd find some in the roads.
Re: Kgalagadi Cheetah Sightings
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2022 5:50 pm
by Lisbeth
You saw a lot of the cheetahs
Re: Kgalagadi Cheetah Discussion
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2022 10:18 pm
by Mel
We did indeed. But we had to work hard for it and it was "only" 12 different cheetahs with two groups being seen twice.
What irked me most was that I was looking for Lizzie and her big male cub Lokesh and the two smaller cubs. We drove the area we knew they were in up and down like mad. Nothing. To add insult to injury, Lizzie showed one late afternoon on a stretch that we had done six times during that day. Plus, we had an extra of three sets of eyes who stayed at Mata and KTC respectively who never saw them either. And then... two days after we had left the park, that darn thing walks into Dalkeith during daytime. I cannot count the times we stood in Dalkeith hoping for her to show up. I'm royally annoyed with that lady
Re: Kgalagadi Cheetah Discussion
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2022 10:31 pm
by nan
Oh no ! don't be "furax" against Lizzie... you saw so many Cheetahs
for my pleasure... strictly egoistement pleasure
next time, I'm sure you will have a next time
Re: Kgalagadi Cheetah Sightings
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2022 10:36 pm
by nan
a real regal, thanks so much Mel
Re: Kgalagadi Cheetah Discussion
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 7:22 am
by Mel
nan wrote: ↑Sun Apr 24, 2022 10:31 pm
Oh no ! don't be "furax" against Lizzie... you saw so many Cheetahs
for my pleasure... strictly egoistement pleasure
next time, I'm sure you will have a next time
It's not Lizzie herself I was after but the very unique constellation of her raising two sets of litter. That's basically like winning the lotto. And that ship has sailed for me because Lokesh will be long gone when I'm able to go back next time.
Re: Kgalagadi Cheetah Discussion
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 11:43 am
by Lisbeth
A couple of fingers were not enough, you wanted the whole hand
Re: Kgalagadi Cheetah Discussion
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 7:23 pm
by PRWIN
Mel wrote: ↑Sun Apr 24, 2022 10:18 pm
We did indeed. But we had to work hard for it and it was "only" 12 different cheetahs with two groups being seen twice.
What irked me most was that I was looking for Lizzie and her big male cub Lokesh and the two smaller cubs. We drove the area we knew they were in up and down like mad. Nothing. To add insult to injury, Lizzie showed one late afternoon on a stretch that we had done six times during that day. Plus, we had an extra of three sets of eyes who stayed at Mata and KTC respectively who never saw them either. And then... two days after we had left the park, that darn thing walks into Dalkeith during daytime. I cannot count the times we stood in Dalkeith hoping for her to show up. I'm royally annoyed with that lady
Mel where you looking for this
sorry
could not resist, taken february
Re: Kgalagadi Cheetah Discussion
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2022 6:02 am
by Mel
I probably did and you can make me
with that because in February they were still all over the place, basically seen every day.
But with Mark Kaptein leaving the park, Lizzie left the riverbed or so it seems. They do have some sort of hidden love affaire
And there was no report of her being seen for basically the whole of March either.
So, you went at a lucky time
Any photos of them all together?