Browns in Kruger July 2016

[Bushcraft]

Another great leopard sighting! Do they wait for you??

Looks like a good evening!

Thanks Flutts Lucky with leopard

Great evening

[Bushcraft]

Leopard on command

I would have stuck with the Rats if I had been there in the evening but am happy that the rest of you enjoyed the evening

You would have had a few dops and been the life of the party , however you would have definitely given RP a greasing that evening but I was well behaved

[Bushcraft]

I've been playing catch-up all the way from page 8... And all I could see was lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas and more of the same
Alright, a few ellies, birds and stuff were also thrown itnto the mix. What a brilliant trip you had! Very lucky - especially with your cats

The highlight for me however is the civet

Tough to be a father of three girls, especially when they start to grow up and are as pretty as yours, hey?!

Sounds like an extremely enjoyable and successful evening

Thanks for catching up Mel

That civet was suspect, but still cool to see one in the day

Ja, this teenage stuff is starting big time I need to build a "man cave" in my garden so I can hide out

[Bushcraft]

Ja, it was a fantastic day indeed, and a wonderful evening!

Can't remember much of what BC is talking about, but seems about right!

I did spend quite a bit of time with Mrs BC in the bedroom, though!

BC made gigantic steaks, tasty but impossible to finish!

Yip, a great day

I know you got lost in the bathroom because you couldn't find the light switch

Thanks RP

[Bushcraft]

13th Skukuza to Lower Sabie

This was another long day, so it will be split over a few episodes.

For some reason when RP visits us we have very good sighting days, especially for leopard. Our last 3 meets resulted in 6 leopard sightings in 1 day, next trip 3 leopards in 1 tree and then leopard/wild dog/hyena/SSJ interaction on a single kill on his last visit, so RP has become our lucky charm.

It had been a late night and I had that old familiar woodpecker going in my head, so didn’t expect all to be up and about, but I had got them all excited the previous day about possible action at Mazithi Dam in the morning, so the gang was waiting for me.

We had to make it to the golf club for breakfast and I was a little vague on the meeting time as RP and I had argued about it after a few too many whiskeys, but remembered it was around 10am.

We pulled out of camp just after 6am and it was still dark, so I ducked straight up the H1-2 which produced all the normal gang once we could see, however we didn’t take pics as there was only enough light around as we neared Tshokwane.

The darn window with the Cow’s patch poncho job wasn’t holding up and it was making a crazy noise in the wind, so we pulled into Tshokwane and tried to sort it out with more tape. Hawkeyes had named it “Roberta” and a few km outside Tshokwane the noise started again, so the rats all shrieked “Roberta is having another tantrum” and we all laughed but by the end of the trip we were all seriously sick of “Roberta”

The first of the cats started to appear about 500m from Mazithi Dam and others were scattered along the way to the dam. Hawkeyes also attacked “Roberta” at the same time so they could see out the window.











A male and female were still on the buffalo kill from the previous day, but they had dragged it to an awkward spot for a clear view, however it was still very early and the major gang hadn’t arrived yet, so we could move around and find a place.





A herd of ellies then decided to cross the road and we knew they were about to walk into some of the lions we had spotted, so we weren’t sure what to do, but once the trumpeting and squealing started we quickly moved to check out what was happening.



The ellies were chasing lions around, but we missed the main action, however a new male had been flushed out the bush and he began to escort plenty juniors to a new hiding spot.







The crowd was starting to grow and I was getting irritated so suggested that we cruise up to the S86 loop as I had a feeling about it.

The Cow didn’t share my feelings “You want to leave all this action! Why do you always have to move?”

Eventually I won, but it wasn’t a popular decision, however 30m from the S86 southern entrance we spotted the below.



To be continued

[Mel]

Looks as if the RP charm held up

[Richprins]

BC, you know you used the dreaded ice bucket that night....just saying...

[Lisbeth]

Luckily there are some ellies if not it would be only lions, lions and lions

[Flutterby]

Great lion sighting! The Cow must have been happy about your decision to do the S86!

[Bushcraft]

Looks as if the RP charm held up

It was a good day