This morning started out brilliantly, as we left the lodge one of our other vehicles called in a sighting of a lioness, TT, and her two cubs. The cubs are about a year and a half old so are already quite big. The lions were about 20 meters off the road in a burnt area, and to make the sighting even better there were two rhino standing in the middle of the road about 40 meters away from the lions. Eventually the lions moved on and obviously the rhino moved in the opposite direction.
After an excited coffee stop we responded to another lion sighting, this one being Noku and her cubs. These cubs however are only a couple of months old. They were on a eland carcass and to our delight there was a big male leopard approaching the kill from the side of a mountain. The leopard took his time as he was very wary of the lioness. Eventually he came within about hundred meters from the lioness when she saw him. He froze in mid stride, there was a standoff for about 5 minutes when the lioness suddenly charged. The leopard immediately ran straight up the mountain to avoid any further attention. The lioness eventually went behind the carcass to digest her meal in the cool shade of a small Beachwood.
To see these big cats interacting is really a privilege that few get to witness, needless to say we were all ecstatic!
Ranger Neill
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