No matter how many times you see new-borns on drive, it is always a thrill. The other night my guests and I were fortunate enough to have a fantastic sighting of one of our adult lionesses with her two month old cub. They were very relaxed with our presence, and gave us quite a show [...]

Today we decided we would go and look for a leopard as it was the only big animal my guests haven’t seen. There were some light drizzles of rain so I thought it would be a quiet day!

We went a long a road that had a couple of mud pans and only after 20 minutes [...]

Last night’s drive started with a sighting of our big herd of buffalo in the south of the reserve. It was still quite hot and they were competing for shade under some acacia trees. They were all very close and shoving each other out of the way to get some space! We were then fortunate [...]

Last night we were lucky enough to find a large male leopard – we followed him as he chased and killed a warthog. He ate his fill and then slept peacefully nearby. The solitary leopard is extremely difficult to spot in the wild. It is renowned for its sharp vision and [...]

Last night I went out to look for some lions. My guests were really looking forward to seeing one (or more). So I went out to areas where my fellow rangers had seen lions or their tracks that morning. I came up with nothing for a long time until me and Calvin found evidence of [...]

This morning started off very well as we were lucky not to have the sun out. After the past couple of day’s extreme heat, the clouds were very welcoming. We headed off to look for the elephants, and after an hour, we found them running from the one Marula tree to the next, eating the [...]

Recently Tim and I were guiding a group of Dutch tourists for three days and by day two we had seen all of the big five except for leopard. Predictably the guests started asking about leopard. I explained that because of their shy and solitary habit, they are the the “holy grail” of sightings on the [...]

After a few days of persistent bad weather, everyone was happy when the sun finaly broke through late yesterday afternoon.
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First we encountered some rhino on the afternoon game drive, which was good news as rhino do not seem to like the cold weather; and we had seen none thus far.
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While tracking the breeding herd of [...]

Last night my guests, tracker, and I experienced one of the best sightings I have ever had. We responded to a leopard that had been seen not far from where we were headed. As we approached my guests and I were excited, as anyone would be, upon realizing that not only was it a beautiful [...]

Yesterday we welcomed a French group to the main lodge, they had been to several reserves on their trip, but had not been lucky with lion sightings and luckily we knew that our dominant male lion had been close to the lodge earlier that morning.
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As we got ready to set off on afternoon game drive he [...]