I have not written on the blog for a while as I took a bit of a break from game drives. The highlight of the last week was the sighting of a 3 month old leopard cub high up in a tree last night. His mother killed an impala the night before and while she was busy feeding one of the guides spotted the cub in the tree. This morning Rul found a big male leopard at the carcass. Can’t wait for the night drive!

We also found the York pride on mangwa road this morning. They were hunting and we saw them chasing zebra, but without any success. I was once again amazed at the lions hunting ability and how they can strategize to increase their chances of success.

I will put some photos of this morning’s drive on the blog later in the day.

As stated earlier one of the 4 year old lionesses has got cubs as well. We found her and 2 cubs on the afternoon drive of the 21st of September and followed her to a freshly killed wildebeest. The cubs were very active and it provided for excellent photo opportunities.

After unsuccessfully trying to find the lions during the afternoon drive we stopped at Singwe Big dam for sundowners. We found the whole pride making their way towards the dam barely 200meters after we got going again.

On the 6th of September we found the York pride on a baby giraffe kill. Andries, my tracker, followed the tracks and walked right into them. As always the Mother Lion charged and she seems to be getting grumpier with old age. The pride settled down quickly after I picked him up again and we enjoyed a wonderful hour watching them feeding on the giraffe.

I took this photos of a male leopard early evening at Hamerkop dam on the 3rd of September. If you look carefully you will see the wound on his right flank which was probably caused during a territorial fight with another male.