Yesterday afternoon , we set off on our game drive I was appose to have 10 pax on my game viewer , but only 2 had arrived Mr and Mrs Wallis , a Local couple from Johannesburg , they were here for their honeymoon so I had to make their stay one not to forget. In my safety brief I asked what they would like to see the most and they both asked for elephant and Lion , so I said to them I would do my best . Heading out on drive we spoke a lot about the area and the history of the park.
15min into the drive I came across some Impala under a Shepherds tree , this was perfect I could explain where and why the Shepherds tree is called a Shepherds tree this is because the Shepherds came to rest under these tree for shade and because the tree keeps a constant temperature .
This is why we could be finding the impala resting under it ,as we carried on with our drive we came across a few different birds near by a fire , these birds where fork tailed drongs , they were in the area feeding from the insects that were flying away from the fire .
Few moments after that I notice an Elephant moving alone side one of the roads that was up ahead. This was a large bull elephant he was busy feeding on some sweet thorn a few meters off of the road. While watching him I heard a sighting come through over the radio for Tau which means lion not far from where we were , of we set to go look for the lions , on the way we got lots of plains game animals such as Zebra , Impala, Blue Wildebeest and Red Heartbeats which we stopped for some photos.
On our way to the lions we managed to find 4 White Rhinos, right next to the road the guests where so happy to see them and where going mad with their cameras. After some time we started to move off on search of the lions that were called in lucky for me I was been kept up to date by the other ranger’s in the park that they were sleeping in the open. I was not far now maybe 5 min away, soon as we knew it we had them a male and female that have been mating in the area for the last few days. They were at most maybe 40m off of the road just. This blew away the guest’s we stayed with them talking about the lions in the park. After some time we headed off for sun downers while having drinks we head a leopard calling. We then set back to the lodge seeing tons of plains game again and 2 large spotted eagle owls. We had just been on our access road for some time when one of my rangers call in a leopard a few hundred meters from the lodge we headed off quick and a few seconds before us getting there he had move off into some thick bush. We then headed on to the lodge to warm up around the fire, and head to dinner.
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