From Floods and Surprises in River beds

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Two leopards!! :shock: Fantastic! ^Q^ ^Q^


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That's the kind of sighting (a leopard almost disappearing) that makes your heart jump a couple of beats ;-)

Two leopards difficult to see make one clearly visible =O: =O: ...I wish ;-)


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More fantastic pics of the dogs and then 2 leopard O\/ O\/ ^Q^ ^Q^


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Richprins wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2019 8:22 am A leopard is a leopard indeed, Pumbaa! :twisted:
At least these two were not the last leopards during that trip \O
Alf wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2019 8:28 am Wow doggies and then two leopards

^Q^
We definitely could not complain about that thrilling start into the day O**


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Flutterby wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2019 8:45 am Two leopards!! :shock: Fantastic! ^Q^ ^Q^
Although that area can be busy it is for us one of the best Leopard spots in the park O/\
Lisbeth wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2019 9:59 am That's the kind of sighting (a leopard almost disappearing) that makes your heart jump a couple of beats ;-)

Two leopards difficult to see make one clearly visible =O: =O: ...I wish ;-)
Me too lol


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Bushcraft wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:56 am More fantastic pics of the dogs and then 2 leopard O\/ O\/ ^Q^ ^Q^
At least not the masses of leopards you are using to see O**


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Furthermore the leopard was only visible from one spot and as we were the only car we could take a couple of shots and on top with a lifted head

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and whilst we waited for some action of the leopard a spotted flycatcher landed close by

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whilst the leopard got more alert

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and allowed us quite a number of more shots until same finally decided to jump down the bush and was not longer to be seen although we still waited a while at least right time and right place and even two leopards within only minutes.

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As we were anywhere there we for sure paid Transport dam now another visit and were greeted by a lot of resting waterbucks

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and a group of grazing wildebeests.

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The waterbucks were indeed still extreme sleepy and enjoyed the quiet early morning at the dam,

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a couple of white faced ducks just landed on one of the huge rocks,

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a baby waterbuck needed some early morning running exercise

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and we finally made a short break at Skukuza before we started the long journey to Satara. After our short break we then stopped for quite a number of marabous in a dead tree

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and whilst we stood again on the causeway across the Sabie it started to rain again but at least we could spot a green backed heron

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and lots of white egrets.

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To our luck the Marula loop was still open but extreme muddy and slippery and there we came across an extreme shy kudu female

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who wanted to join her girlfriends on the other side of the road but did not dare. We then carried on and paid a detour to N’watindlopfu where we met an elephant bull

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and a Wahlberg eagle on the ground.

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to be continued……


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Love the White faced Ducks


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Amazing sightings ^Q^ ^Q^


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