Africa Wild

Early November 2020 .

Client in Hazeyview ....Please can you arrange to come to site for meetings and training next week .

Check on Sanparks site ooh some availability at Pretoriuskop and some units at Orpen just added onto the system sure will be there next week

Plan is drive up Monday to Pretoriuskop go to site an Mkhulu Tuesday & Wednesday leaving early from camp each day ,Then move to Orpen for two nights and back home ....

The long drive was uneventful .Entering at Malelane and driving to camp we came across an itchy Ellie



This roller brightened our day


It was the first time we stayed in these units and enjoyed our first braai in the circle .


We got an early night as we had a planned early 4.30 start ...

Sounds interesting

Early the next morning we were second at the Gate the first car we saw off into the distance as we drove out scanning with torches as it was still dark. We drove slowly towards Shithave Dam and the plan was to have a stop over and see if anything came down to the dam ...

As we drove down the road to the dam the car that had been ahead of us was driving out of the road .Ok guess there isn't much to see yet .We drove on down to the dam and stopped and before switching off the headlights suddenly the SO says whats that moving there in the very dark morning .Its a ...Lion .A big male lion was making his way to the dam to drink . And as we scanned behind him there was the rest of the pride laying spread out .

The pics are a little pixilated due to low light .





They were all relaxed and awake .One or another shuffled around and flopped in a better position



The Male rejoined the rest and they remained alert watching us it seemed .



After about 15 mins another vehicle joined us and we had to leave to drive to get to Phabeni and to the site .

Passing the road back to camp we saw the morning shift heading out to the Day visitors site .



Along the S3 some Zebra were enjoying an early morning sand bath roll on the water runoff .



We carried on off to the site leaving by Phabeni gate .

That’s a big pride of lions

Wow some wonderful sightings

Right place, right moment

Beautiful views, Rog!

Looks like a nice plan there.

And wragtig lions at Shitlhave!

Was it quite dry still?

Love the view of PK camp, is that a fish lens?

What fantastic lion sighting, Roger

The fresh leaves on the zebra pic are just brilliant Silver cluster leaves live up to their name

Alf wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 8:07 pm That’s a big pride of lions

it was one of the biggest we have seen in the area .

harrys wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 9:12 pm Wow some wonderful sightings

Harry

Lisbeth wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 10:31 am Right place, right moment

that is very true .

Richprins wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 5:25 pm Beautiful views, Rog!

Looks like a nice plan there.

And wragtig lions at Shitlhave!

Was it quite dry still?

Love the view of PK camp, is that a fish lens?

Yes very dry , was even lower than when we were there about 6 weeks ago . That was taken on the cellphone it has a fisheye feature .

Pumbaa wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 5:39 pm What fantastic lion sighting, Roger

Pumbaa

Klipspringer wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 5:46 pm The fresh leaves on the zebra pic are just brilliant Silver cluster leaves live up to their name

It was actually a great morning drive very fresh .