Kylie’s great sightings continues! she says: “Yesterday we had some great elephant sightings with a lot of them playing in little water puddles next to the road. The young ones are loving all the water around and it seems to give them a lot of energy as all of them are constantly play fighting.

We also had 3 rhino who thought they were ballet dancers and were bouncing around and making the earth move with all that weight. The giraffes, zebra and impala were all still showing face as well as some buffalo. We also saw a few of the smaller creatures like a whole swarm of green milkweed locusts crossing the road and then proceeding to devour everything in their path, as well as some grey tree frogs in the road and by their foam nests. We also saw some african jacanas, black crakes, southern masked weavers and a little bittern.

Today started out slowly with us struggling to find even impala but got kicked up a notch when one of the guests spotted a leopard lying in a huge marula tree. He was just lying around until he spotted some impala in front of our vehicle on the road. He jumped down but then we lost visual and after a while had to give up and move on.

The luck had been switched on as we then had some monkeys with babies, herd of about 25 elephant walking across an open plain, wildebeest with babies, zebra ans 2 rhino. We stopped for a coffee refill at Afsaal and on our way back to camp, we found 3 male lions sleeping on the side of the road. Thanks to a bus making a funny noise, the flat cats lifted their heads and we got a stunning view of them. We also saw a white winged widowbird and some southern red bishops in the river trying to cool down.

But the highlight of the day had to be 2 of our afternoon sightings. We found a python on the road who just sat posing for us and we found the calmest black rhino around. We spent about 20 minutes with him only 20m from us while he was marking his territory and eating the small shrubs off of the floor! It was amazing to see and we felt very privileged being able to see him!”

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