A Fantarantulatastic Trip To Kruger - April 2017

[PJL]

wow superb Leopard sighting and pictures
love also Hyenas and twice the Doggies

magnificent
so much to share


for me there is too many pictures per post... very difficult to open... I don't know with the african network how is it

Thanks nan... not sure what the image issue was for you but hopefully better now

[PJL]

Usually, we'd call Bushcraft a hamster... but you seem to have learned well from in... in every kind of way.
Even with your leopard sightings Stunning!

But I must say that the little hyena stole the show. At least from my point of view, because once I think
"I want one" it must be really cute

More of the wild dogs, once again a great sighting. (But I'm still with the hyena pup )

And great raptor sightings on top of it. Seriously

Thanks for the comments Mel
I was running short on time before our overseas trip hence the Bushcraft impression

[PJL]

Now you are exaggerating PJL Your shots of the dogs are great

Thanks Lis... it was a really great day with plenty more sightings to come

Another great sighting!! Always nice when you end up with the prime position!

Prime position was important along the S1... lots of traffic around

Finally caught up again, PJL,

must say brilliant shots and extra amazing sightings

Love the monitor close ups, the many many wild dog pictures and then the leopard plus lions

You in fact took the right road and knew where to find something intersting

Thanks for the comments and following along Pumbaa

[PJL]

Your pics are back

Pooshrooms I wonder if they are magic mushrooms

Fantastic wild dog sighting

A rather “tired” old male lion

Love the junior hyena wingnut pics

Cool leopard sighting The “brown discovery” mates informed me that you guys were at this sighting. You managed some fantastic pics of him.

Another wild dog sighting just after the leopard. That’s a big luck

BTW, what pic hosting site are you using now

It was a very cool leopard sighting
I think the discovery crew were in a better position and they caught him drinking as well, but we were just pleased to see him
For now I'm using Flickr for images - I don't really trust photobucket any more so I'm still in the process of transferring images across

[PJL]

April 11th Continued

Once the dogs had moved off we continued along the S1 with big grins on our faces after the morning's sightings. Fairly soon we came across a traffic jam - the male leopard from earlier had apparently crossed the road but no-one could see where he had gone so we didn't hang around and escaped the mayhem. It was a good call as about 5 minutes later we came across another leopard

This time a female was moving fairly close and parallel to the road, but due to the thick bush trying to get a glimpse of her was proving really difficult





She paused on a small rise for a while which gave us a slightly better view





We waited patiently for her to turn her head and look in our direction but she wasn't interested and walked off in the same direction as her gaze... eventually just a few spots showing how hard she was to see in the tall grass



After all the excitement we weren't really sure which way to head next so we did a bit of an exploration along the S4/S3 which yielded some elephant and a group of black storks





We then ventured along the S1 again to see if the leopard had reappeared anywhere, but despite some possible sightings he wasn't to be seen again. We did however find a nice big herd of buffalo complete with youngsters as well as a duiker close up









On our way back to camp we called in at Lake Panic where there were a few hippo and some giraffe along the road....





It had been a really great morning drive

[Mel]

Okay... I guess I would have preferred seeing a leopard even in difficult conditions like these,
rather than having no leopard to show off at all But it is rather frustrating when you know
they are there and refuse to cooperate. Same goes for the "Oh, there was a leopard a couple
of minutes earlier, but now it vanished into the bush"

[Pumbaa]

Beautiful leopard shots, PJL,

plus stunning buffalo close ups

[Richprins]

Lucky again, Peej!

Shows you how nice settings can see through the grass!

That leopard has a very sleek coat!

[Lisbeth]

Nice spots...almost only spots

The back storks aree very nice, not to talk about the buffaloes

[Lisbeth]

Nice spots...almost only spots

The back storks aree very nice, not to talk about the buffaloes