At about 5:15 Rina got the first phone call from Rex, our night’s watchman, to inform us that the lions are at the main gate! We radioed Pierre, our legendary ranger, and told him of this very cool event and he went straight there. The guests did see them but not the best of sightings as they went into the bush at that time.

A couple of minutes later Rex phoned the lodge and told Gerard (our chef) that the lions are lying in the road and he cannot pass them to come to work. Gerard was busy cooking up a storm so asked Rina to go fetch him… Rina then saw the male and 1 female and it was good, really good seeing them again. Incredible how good looking these creatures are. She didn’t want to leave and sat there for a bit with Rex in the Hilux (that’s a Toyota car 😉 ) and then the male decided he had seen enough of them for that day and followed his lovely lady into the bush after teasing her a bit first.

See the photos below that Rina took. Very nice.