The Great Escape

[RogerFraser]

Nkuhlu really does look allot better . Kids never stop even when they become adults

Love seeing the hoopoe arround.

[Pumbaa]

Finally caught up, PJL,

and must say fantastic shots and too hard to choose favourites although must say that your hyena shots are incredible - So very well captured

Lots of good sightings you had and that ellie road block is great too

Ready for more

[Klipspringer]

You got a good variety of wild life. I love the birds and the kudu trio!

[PJL]

Nkulu looks great! Very neat and orderly

You're too fast for me. Can't keep up with your pace

Of course all of your photos are amazing but I enjoyed the hyena sighting and the saddle-billed most.
I love the colours on the stork. Very pretty.

Yes sorry Mel... proceeding at speed as usual
It was great to see the SBS up close

The coucal still looks very

Cute little hyena and a nice sequence with mommy

I love the pics of the giraffes, spread out all over the place

Pretty bushbuck

The close up of the stork shows how bright the colours are

Nkuhlu looks very different from when I saw it last time.......luckily They even have the buffalo pie on the menu again

Thanks Lis... yeah Nkuhlu was great. And that giraffe congregation was quite something to see

Lovely stuff, Peej!

Interestingly, I saw on Wild earth that nyala are pushing out bushbuck in the south/central districts...they don't really belong there!

My favourite is the giraffe group shot.

And Nkuhlu looks marvelous under new management!

So the nyala don't belong or the bushbuck don't belong? We did see quite a few nyala around that's for sure

[PJL]

Nkuhlu really does look allot better . Kids never stop even when they become adults

Love seeing the hoopoe arround.

Yeah Nkuhlu will be high on our stop off places in the future if it continues as it is now. Even the skottels for hire are cheaper than elsewhere!

Finally caught up, PJL,

and must say fantastic shots and too hard to choose favourites although must say that your hyena shots are incredible - So very well captured

Lots of good sightings you had and that ellie road block is great too

Ready for more

Pumbaa, nice to have you along for the trip. The hyenas were cool... one of our better sightings of them for sure

You got a good variety of wild life. I love the birds and the kudu trio!

Thanks Klipspringer - that kudu trio was a nice sight. Quite a variety of ages and poses

[PJL]

Tuesday July 6th contd...

After lunch we wandered down to the deck in Skukuza. The place was pretty much deserted which was surreal when normally the car park is jam packed and there are people all over the place. As a whole we found Skukuza to be a really nice stay - the ablutions were always clean and the place seemed to be well run and looked after.

For an afternoon drive we aimed to head down the H3 for a while and depending on time cut over to Biyamiti weir and back up the S114. We pulled in to De Laporte to find a giraffe coming in to drink







Once on the H3 there was a nice male steenbok





Not long after the S13 turn off there was a small lineup of cars for what was our first leopard of the trip complete with an impala kill stashed high in a tree



She wasn’t keen on looking our direction to begin with, but whilst waiting for her to turn around another head popped into view - there was a cub with her
The cub went bounding up the tree to the kill







Once up by the kill, the cub really wasn’t visible



Instead we tried out a few places along the road to try and get a view of the mom… thankfully she started looking around a bit more







Before deciding to go back to sleep



It was getting late so we abandoned our Biyamiti weir plan and went back via the S13, S23 & S114. All was quiet along the gravel roads but we did have a nice sighting of a duiker along the way to end the day

[Lisbeth]

I love to see giraffes drinking

Handsome bokkie

I suppose that the leopard cub made it up to the impala, even if it looks a bit Nice sigting

The curl on top of the head of the duiker makes it look so cute

[Richprins]

Beautiful pics, Peej!

And a very lucky leppie sighting with cub, so your trip already made!

I love the giraffe drinking and the small antelope!

[RogerFraser]

Leopard with a cub .

Always an event to watch the Giraffe drink

Lovely photos of the little buck

[Mel]

WOW, that giraffe is really crisp. Same goes for the duiker. Very nice photos

Love the steenbok. Such cute little critters.

But of course... that leopard sighting beats them all. Two for the price of one - very