Ja... that's quite disturbingPeter Betts wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 10:52 am This year there has been no summer rain so in April there will just be red sand when we go
18 nights of Solitude at Rooiputs
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Hopefully it is nothing serious ..The Old matriarch and BOSS of the Rooiputs Lion population has been missing in action for about a month apparently .. When we saw her on 3 occassions in April she was in GREAT condition as the pic shows ...I am quietly confident she will be there in April again
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Could she have had cubs
That would be a good reason 


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Let's hope so, Lis 

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Thanks for you stunning shots, Peter



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On their way to the leaking water Tanks at Campsite 5 ..I came back on the Anti Clockwise road hoping to see Lions in that part of the camp area ..bang there were 2
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Two beautiful lionesses on their own? Maybe the one to the left is pregnant 

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Those amber eyes… Well captured with the lady on the right 

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Unlike the dry conditions this season ..last year this time the Kgalagadi had great rains and as a result by May there was grass everywhere..Took this Bull into the sun in a sea of wheatlike grass..TELFAST time ..Oh how I suffered with hayfever!!!