A Cat a Day, almost every day: Kgalagadi Oct/Nov 2023

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Thanks everyone

Been in Namibia fora while, so will continue asap

Sorry for the delay

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Thanks for your patience everyone, life got busy and I neglected the travel tale :o0ps:

Leaving the lions, headed north up towards Mata Mata.

A bit further on, a small herd of kudu were seeking shelter under the trees on our left.

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Then just after Urikaruus, a female cheetah (Corinne) was on the side of the road.


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We stayed with her for a long time as we watched her eying a possible lunch in the riverbed


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It was not to be, and after a while she moved over the dunes on the far side of the riverbed

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We turned around and set off back to Kieliekrankie

Very happy with our morning so far O/\ O/\


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With a cheetah sighting any morning is a wonderful morning :-0


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Nice pics of Corinne \O

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What luck, Gavin! ^Q^

Love the long-distance shot!


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So we went back to Kieliekrankie and tried to have an afternoon nap
In 45 degrees that’s not easy, but we sort of managed

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We left for our afternoon drive at about 4.30pm


Going north towards Montrose, we came across some more kudu, hiding in the shrubbery

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As well as some wildies on the side of the road

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That was about it until we returned to Auchterlonie, just in time to see these lions wondering over the top of the dune on the west

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