April 2016
While stopped someone told us about a pride of lions on the S126 Sweni road, which is the road we had planned on taking anyway.
At the turn-off we found a guy battling with a flat tyre so Mommo got out to help.
After looking in the boot he said he couldn't find the jack!
We were about to get ours out when the Kruger traffic police arrived. They were charming guys and couldn't have been more helpful.
They told us not to worry and to leave it to them.
The lions had been seen at the waterhole not far from the main road but when we got there, there was a herd of wildebeest but no lions. We scanned the area and then saw an elephant approaching and thought if the lions were still around, the ellie might flush them out. As the ellie got closer a lion cub popped out from some thick bushes, and then disappeared again.
A lioness then appeared, looking in the direction of the wildebeest.
(Video snapshot)
She then started towards them, moving with purpose.
(Video snapshot)
We reversed back to the waterhole. The elephant had arrived and scared the wildebeest away who were now moving towards the lion!
(Video snapshot)
We couldn't see the lioness anymore, so we moved forward again and saw that she had turned around and returned to where we had originally seen her.
You can just see her nose to the right of the cub.
As we were in no rush we found some shade and decided to wait around a while longer. In total we counted 4 lions but they never moved out into the open, so we decided to continue on our way to the S36 and back to the H7.
