We had safaris on both the north and south of the Kruger Park this past week and our sightings have been as brilliant as ever!

Our groups in the north had very interesting sightings around an elephant carcass near the Nhlanganini Dam. The elephant broke his leg during a fight with another elephant bull and had to be put down by the Park rangers. Although this is very sad, it is part of nature and because of this, several other animals could feed their young. Various types of vultures and several hyenas were spotted.

Our first hour driving down the Sabie river was quiet but then we got a huge pack of wild dogs, 18 dogs in all, on the S21 dirt road! We were the only vehicle with the dogs for at least 15 minutes. The rest of the road had good elephant and white rhino sightings. The eagle sightings were great- Black chested snake eagle, Martial eagle and a African Harrier-Hawk (Gymnogene). Then just before the end of the Safari a lovely female leopard crossed in front of us and sat on the side of the road, the guests were able to get some really good photos and view her for at least 30 seconds or so.

Out brilliant sightings in the Kruger Park continues to amaze our guests!

On the 7th they saw male cheetah chasing zebra and then killing a baby impala, a pack of wild dogs, a clan of 11 hyena, 8 lionesses chasing impala and playing with each other( lots of love flowing through that pride), lots of impala with all the new babies, tons of zebra, giraffe, a pair of paradise flycatchers, black crakes with some youngsters, and a pair of cape vultures on their nest.

With summer in full swing, there are loads of baby animals everywhere! It is stunning to see all the creches all over the park!

Sadly they also make a quick meal for some of the predators and Willem’s guests were treated to a cheetah catching a baby impala. We sometimes forget that in order to see the predators, someone else has to become lunch!

Willem’s guests had a very interesting sighting of 2 young male baboons wrecking a weaver’s nest. They watched this for quite a while. The baboons would rip the nests apart and be elated whenever they found an egg or chick to eat, but seemed to be throwing a temper tantrum with every nest that came up empty, destroying the nest completely!

The Lion drought of the past week has been broken! This morning, as everyone was leaving Skukuza in search of great sightings, 3 huge males were right on the crossing just outside the camp! Even the guests on their way to do a Bush walk with SAN Parks got to see them!

Yesterday was also a good one with another leopard and no less than 10 white rhino spotted in different areas along the Biyamiti! The rest of the day brought elephant, buffalo, loads of giraffe, zebra, impala (several of the herds have started dropping their babies, so there are many tiny little impalas running around!), kudu, wildebeest and many birds.