Game Drive #7: Thursday, October 14, 4:15pm-7:30pm
-Purple-crested turaco (bird)
-giant planted lizard
-White-browed scrub robin
-rock python incubating eggs in a hole in a tree - we got out of the
vehicle to stand under the tree for a closer look! This is the biggest
snake type in the area.
-dwarf mongoose (smallest carnivore in Africa - quite cute!)
-an adolescent female leopard lounging in a tree with her back legs
hanging in front of her, almost crossed like a human - beautiful
pattern of skin - this was our 5th different leopard (1 female mother
with two cubs, a male adult, and this one)
-dark chanting boshawk
-4 male lions, guarding their striking cape buffalo kill, partially
eaten (they were digesting, their stomachs full)
-another cheetah (same day, 2 different cheetahs, which are rare in these parts)
-flying beetle
- a jackal walked by while we were out of the vehicle having drinks by
a watering hole (this was on my list to see)
-more Wahlberg's eagle, impala, nyala, warthogs, African hoopoes,
black-bellied bustards, elephants, lilac-breasted rollers, kudu,
vultures, steenbok, grey duiker, barn owl Also, found out from Patrick the name of the colorful lizard on our
deck back at camp...rainbow skink! Apt moniker. We ate dinner out on the kids' back deck by candlelight in the pitch
black, and just as we were finishing, 2-3 lionesses padded quietly by
just about 50 metres from us, with no guide to protect us, no jeep to
drive away in, no fence between us... I happened to notice a shadow
moving and not at all like an antelope moves... I wasn't sure whether
it was possibly a leopard, lion or cheetah, all of which we had seen
that evening... and I asked David to come inside (the kids had just
gone in)... but then our waiter came back and bravely peered over the
railing into the darkness and unconcernedly proclaimed then lionesses.
A little additional excitement for the day! They walked on by,
apparently in search of water, since they had just eaten some of their
waterbuck kill (as we found out the next day).
-giant planted lizard
-White-browed scrub robin
-rock python incubating eggs in a hole in a tree - we got out of the
vehicle to stand under the tree for a closer look! This is the biggest
snake type in the area.
-dwarf mongoose (smallest carnivore in Africa - quite cute!)
-an adolescent female leopard lounging in a tree with her back legs
hanging in front of her, almost crossed like a human - beautiful
pattern of skin - this was our 5th different leopard (1 female mother
with two cubs, a male adult, and this one)
-dark chanting boshawk
-4 male lions, guarding their striking cape buffalo kill, partially
eaten (they were digesting, their stomachs full)
-another cheetah (same day, 2 different cheetahs, which are rare in these parts)
-flying beetle
- a jackal walked by while we were out of the vehicle having drinks by
a watering hole (this was on my list to see)
-more Wahlberg's eagle, impala, nyala, warthogs, African hoopoes,
black-bellied bustards, elephants, lilac-breasted rollers, kudu,
vultures, steenbok, grey duiker, barn owl Also, found out from Patrick the name of the colorful lizard on our
deck back at camp...rainbow skink! Apt moniker. We ate dinner out on the kids' back deck by candlelight in the pitch
black, and just as we were finishing, 2-3 lionesses padded quietly by
just about 50 metres from us, with no guide to protect us, no jeep to
drive away in, no fence between us... I happened to notice a shadow
moving and not at all like an antelope moves... I wasn't sure whether
it was possibly a leopard, lion or cheetah, all of which we had seen
that evening... and I asked David to come inside (the kids had just
gone in)... but then our waiter came back and bravely peered over the
railing into the darkness and unconcernedly proclaimed then lionesses.
A little additional excitement for the day! They walked on by,
apparently in search of water, since they had just eaten some of their
waterbuck kill (as we found out the next day).
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