With the first rains of the season sticking around for the last 5 days, game viewing has been a little interesting! The mornings have been quiet but the afternoons have certainly made up for it!

With 3 of our guides going off in different directions for a few of the drives, we have seen a lot of the usual but a lot of amazing sightings too.

The rains brought with them a lot of the smaller creatures, with the tortoises, terrapins, snails, slugs, chameleons, and dung beetles all either crossing the road or flying into the vehicle!

Outlook Lodge & Safaris’ recent sales & marketing trip to Cape Town proved to be rather successful. It was great seeing so many of our agents again and Cape Town was, as always, beautiful!

We took some of our agents on a sunset champagne cruise from the Cape Town Harbor. What an amazing experience this was! There is something so magical about being on a vessel under sail! No noise other than that of the ocean around you. Seals & dolphins playing in the waters around you & this close to land still some gulls & other waterbirds following us in the hopes of getting a snack. On the return we had a stunning view of Table Mountain in the setting sun. Gorgeous!!

Back in the bush and its treating Kylie fantastically! She says:

“We have had an AMAZING 3 days! We have seen the Big 5 and so much more everyday. 3 Leopard sightings- spending 20 min with a big male who walked right past our car, a young female who was just lounging in a Marula tree right next to the road and today we had a male also sleeping in a tree not far off the road. Countless lion sightings including 3 big males, a mating pair, 15 lions on a buffalo kill, 4 lionesses also on a buffalo kill, and 3 lionesses with a 3 month old cub. Also having wonderful sightings of elephants and rhino with young ones and lots of buffalo including a big herd of about 500+.

With the first real rain yet to fall in the Kruger Park, our client are still being treated to huge breeding herds of elephant, huge herds of buffalo and of course the predators that go with this!

The past week produced brilliant sightings of everything a safari guide and client could hope for! The list is too long to mention all, but here are some of the highlights:

Several lion sightings (one one drive they had 3 different sightings!)

Leopard in a tree, on the ground and on a kill!

Cheetah hunting

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After the bitter loss of the Springboks to the Wallabies this past weekend, we at least have some great sightings to sweeten us up a bit!

Willem is in the Kruger National Park at the moment and his guest have been treated to loads of brilliant sightings!

Amongst others, they found a pack of wild dog with 12 pups! It is always great to see these endangered animals.

They also treated to a pride of lions with a buffalo kill, a leopard on the causeway of the Sabie river and several huge herds of elephant and buffalo.