Browns in Kruger September 2021

[Bushcraft]

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[Bushcraft]

The leopard then hopped up onto the edge of the bridge and headed straight for us, so I reserved a little up the road to give her some room.

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She then stopped in the shade near the middle of the road and checked us out a little while plotting her next move. She seemed to relax, and I thought she may sit in the road.

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Around 30 seconds later 2 cars arrived on the other side of the bridge and the occupants must have spotted the leopard because they came quickly across the bridge.

“Oh no, they mustn’t push her!”

Unfortunately, the overexcited newcomers roared in close. You can see the car tyre in the top left of the pic below.

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The leopardess continued on the road while I reversed further (fortunately no cars had arrived from behind us yet), but the newcomers kept pushing from behind her, so she decided to cruise off the road and diagonally into the bush.

I continued to reverse further while following her through the bush and fortunately the newcomers were still frantically looking around in the area where she had left the road. Eventually she totally disappeared so I switched off.

“We arsed that sighting!”

All agreed and Albert showed off her pics from the sighting while we sat jabbering.

The rest of the drive to the golf club was again relatively quiet, but we were still on a “high” from the leopard sighting and talking more than looking.

The club stuffed up our order again, but it happened every time we visited this trip, however we have learnt to just go with the flow at the club because it’s less stressful and it’s always rectified in time.

To be continued

[Richprins]

Wow, BC!

I so enjoy reading the vintage report again, like old times!

Albert certainly can take some pics!

A civet too to add some spots!

Was the special still going at the golf club?

One can never have too many lions.

Put the rhino up at the end of th report like Rog does?

[Lisbeth]

One can never have too many lions.

Was that a dig at me?

[Lisbeth]

Well done, Albert!

Another great leopard sighting How do you do it?

[RogerFraser]

Lovely shots Albert

Great to see the Leopard magnet is still working

[Richprins]

One can never have too many lions.

Was that a dig at me?

[Lisbeth]

[Bushcraft]

Wow, BC!

I so enjoy reading the vintage report again, like old times!

Albert certainly can take some pics!

A civet too to add some spots!

Was the special still going at the golf club?

One can never have too many lions.

Put the rhino up at the end of th report like Rog does?

Vintage Some of those old trip reports were written after a few

Ja, Albert can operate with a camera and seems to have an interest in it, so she can take over the

If you mean the special, yes. I got 2 doubles for the price 1.

[Bushcraft]

Well done, Albert!

Another great leopard sighting How do you do it?

Albert pulls off amazing pics at times

I have made a point of getting to know the general leopard areas over the years but other than that it's all timing and luck