Jon-Jon departed on the afternoon Safari as normal. Some of our guests were not back yet, they had left after breakfast to do the Panorama Route. Jon-Jon’s drive was progressing nicely, exploring the game reserve to see what animals could be found. Justine was on standby to do a link-out to Jon-Jon once the guests returned from their Panorama Route trip.
Jon-Jon had not been out for long before our guests returned and Justine left to link them out to Jon-Jon. They had just come across some giraffe looking very intently into the bush. Now giraffes can be a very useful ally in bush, they often give away the position of predators. So Jon-Jon was quite right to assume that there was something out there. It unfortunately doesn’t always work out that we get to see what the giraffe sees.
At this point Justine was close and Jon-Jon decided to go and collect the guests at the pre-arranged meeting point
Once everyone was on board, off they went again in search of whatever the giraffe was looking at. They had only gone about a 100 metres from where the giraffe was when one of our guests spotted a leopard (youngish female), lying in the top of a leadwood tree. Needless to say everyone was ecstatic, spotting a leopard is fabulous and very special. However spotting one up a tree is even more amazing, even though the archetypal picture is of a leopard up a tree they spend most of their time on the ground. So seeing her up a tree was a real treat. After being able to spend a good 45 minutes with the leopard Jon-Jon and the guests left the spot with huge smiles on their faces, off to go and enjoy another one of Africa’s marvellous sunsets.