An eventful start to this morning’s game drive from Phinda Zuka Lodge. Early on we find a male black rhino, who decides charging the vehicle is the best means of defence. He stops short of […]
The lions starting roaring at about 7.30pm last night (after dark) at Ngala Tented Camp, and were still going at 5.30am this morning when we went searching for them. Elliott and Norman very quickly established […]
Between last night and this morning’s game drive from Ngala Tented Camp, Norman, Elliott and I have spent 5 hours tracking a pride of 15 lions in Ngala Private Game Reserve. This morning we found […]
Lions. Found ’em at Ngala Private Game Reserve. 7 of them – 4 lionesses (one heavily pregnant) and 3 adult males. The pack of seven separate into one dominant male with two lionesses, and other […]
Another search for the mother leopard and her cubs this morning at Ngala Private Game Reserve. We manage to find the mother, well hidden in scrub. She’s determined to nap until we go away and […]
Ngala Tented Camp in Ngala Private Game Reserve is my base for 5 nights. Washed away by floods two years ago, it is newly rebuilt, with 9 large ‘tents’ open to the breeze, and protected […]
