The photos that Uyai took yesterday, as far as I can remember, might well constitute a record. I do not recall so many different animals being seen in one single day! I know that the quality and volume of sightings has been increasing steadily over recent months and years, but it is nonetheless shocking to see how much, and how consistent the quality and quantity is of sightings. Of course every reserve has its speciality: on some leopards are very prevelant, on others it is elephants and on others it is lions. We see lions now 3-4 times per week, so if you are staying 5 nights then it is quasi impossible to not having seen them at least once or twice, unless you are extremely unlucky. I don’t remember anyone this year staying 5 nights and not having seen lions for instance. We find cheetahs very often, and that’s a rarity: there are only a few hundred of them out there in the wild in South Africa (a country twice as large as France, so that puts it into perspective). But as the photos below show, some days are just spectacular, and as my recent blog posts indicate: there is something exciting seen literally every day. Here at the Vuyani Safari Lodge, no day is like the next, and every day is special in its own right. Yesterday we saw lions, elephants, a chameleon, warthogs, giraffes, zebras, hippos, monkeys, tsetsebies, and that’s just some of what was seen.
Many thanks to Uyai for the beautiful photos!
One of the young lionesses seems to have had a bit of a tiff with the older lioness, but she has a small (but healing) wound on her shoulder. Well, they are fine now again, family spats happen, also within lion prides.
It is rare enough to see a giraffe lying down, but then also next to a zebra. Fantastic sighting!
