When the Lions are away, the Leopards come out to play (April 2019)

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That day was well and truly done - and it was just a quarter past eight. O:V

Another remarkable sight was a steenbok family. Unfortunately dad was the scaredy-cat that had already run off further into the dunes,
so I was left with only half a family portrait.
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The only other nice sighting was the scopsie at Nossob, but it wasn't inclined to offer me more than that:
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Fantastic leopard sighting, Mel,

when you do not expect much you will rewarded with such a sighting \O

Great shots on top and I am quite sure that this is a female X#X X#X X#X What beauty :ty:


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Does "Boipelo" mean something? Pelo in Italian means fur/skin ;-)

It looks like a young male and he looks first to the left and then to the right not the other way around 0' lol

Apart from ostriches and steenboks I have never seen anything neither on the upper nor the lower dune roads 0*\

Lovely steenboks and a kind of miracle that the other two did not disappear too.

Not much satisfaction from the owl O**

It's a long trip without seing anything (Leopard excluded ;-) ) :shock:


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The leopard playing cat and mouse games lol


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Well done, Mello! ^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^

I love the leopard game! =O:

Google says Boipelo means Proud or Haughty in Sotho/Tswana...a girl's name?


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You just said that it means "Proud" or "Haughty" so what has a girls name to do with it -O- and I am almost sure that it's a male.


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The name is a normal Tswana girl's name, so maybe a girl! ..0..


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I see!


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Fantastic sighting! ^Q^ ^Q^ It looks quite small, or am I wrong?


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