I do get the comment sometimes … “Nice photos, but what do the guests actually see?”. Well, the same! Exactly the same, actually. Our photos are taken by the tracker, which he happily does, while on safari. So what he sees, that’s what our guests see.

Sometimes we are lucky, and a guest sends in some of their best shots while here, and, boy oh boy, there are always real treats amongst them. Our guests are a lucky bunch. And some of them are amazing photographers!

Theresa took about 1400 photos while here (!!!!!), and these are just some of the best. There were hundreds of stunning shots, I just can’t post them all. Here a selection. Many thanks for sharing them with us, that’s awesome!

Please visit us again, it was a pleasure having you here with us!

August is usually the driest month of the year, and indeed, it’s dry out there. The grass is yellow, and all leaves are brown. And yet … we’ve had a bit of rain this month: twice! That’s a first, I don’t remember that ever happening in August. Is it a good omen for a good upcoming rainy season? We certainly wouldn’t mind. We love rain here! Speaking of which, rainy season! We do get a lot of questions about that. When we mean “rainy season”, we are not talking about miserable wet drizzle for weeks on end like a European (or worse, dare I say, a British) winter. Our rainy season falls into the warm summer, and by rain we mean quite regular (2-3 times/month only) of strong but short-lived downpours. We would love to have rain for days on end, but we almost never have that. When we do, we celebrate.

But our guests can be reassured: losing several days of safari due to rain is rare here. It happens, but it really doesn’t happen much. You’d have to be unlucky.

Back to the current dry season: it lasts usually from May to early September. There are variations, of course, but that is broadly speaking the pattern.

If you look at the last days’ pictures, you will see what “dry season” means. A lot of game is showing signs of lack of nutrition, and many simply can’t wait for the end of it all. Our predators are doing well though. The game is slower and more lethargic. 😉

I wasn’t sure whether I should share this with our many fans and future guests … or not. In a way, it is brutal, ugly, gruesome, and yet, in a way, it is honest. This is nature. True nature. Eat and be eaten. Evade a predator, as best as you can, until that one day when you run out of luck.

We as humans like to think that we have nothing to do with this cycle of life, but the truth is, we all run out of luck one day. It just isn’t a cheeatah or lion, usually. 😉

As our guests were absolutely blown away by what they saw, I decided that best is to just share how absolutely spectacular animal sightings can be here on our reserve.

So here is last week’s cheetah kill!