Kylie’s at it again! “Yesterday afternoon didn’t disappoint after all our awesome sightings. We had an amazing elephant sighting with a huge breeding herd playing in a small water pool right next to the road, throwing water all over themselces as well as each other, and then also a very large elephant bull without a tail in musth, right next to the road.

Kylie’s sightings in the past week has been as good as ever! She says:

“Every drive has brought many unexpected but amazing sightings over the past 5 days. We have been very lucky in seeing at least one of the big cats in every drive, seeing lions 4 times (including once where 3 big males were walking up the road towards us and stopped about a meter from the vehicle and just stared at us allowing us great shots), 3 leopards with one that was not a happy cat being absolutely covered in mud, and very strangely but very luckily we have seen cheetahs 4 times. This is very strange around the Skukuza area as it is such thick vegetation but we have had sightings of 3 brothers, a lone female and a female with 2 cubs all around this area.

2012 has arrived! May this year bring you lots of joy and happiness!

Game viewing in the Kruger National Park took off with a bang! Dylan and his guests had brilliant sightings with the Sabi Sands guests all of the big 5 as well as a pack of wild dog hunting, killing and eating a bush buck! Back in Kruger they were treated to a rare sighting of 3 cheetah being chased towards our game drive vehicle by 3 white rhino! Further sightings include a pride of lion on a buffalo kill loads of plains game and a rare black rhino!

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.