With dark grey clouds hovering above the Sabi Sands in Djuma, I bring to you the history of six of the most notorious male lions in our area ... the Mapogo Males. Nobody in the area really knows how many there actually are, but I've asked around and have tried to put together the pieces [...]
While driving near Buffelshoek dam, Pieter came across a dead impala. Now this was a bit strange, because usually when you find a dead impala, you also find a predator. But in this case there was nobody eating the impala. Then when Pieter went back to look at it properly on the next drive there [...]
WE caught up with the Kahuma Pride last night and once again they were trying to find food to feed the numerous mouths that now make up this huge group. This time it was seven of the females but WE noticed that two of the females were limping. This is very likely to be a [...]
Well after speaking to as many people as possible, and all your help and thoughts WE are confident the leopard sighted on the afternoon drive of the 10th October 2007 was: Tyson. Which means the leopard that stole Karula's kill on the morning of the 18th July 2007 was probably not Tyson. WE are not [...]
WE really for sure have had some great drives recently ... it's in our nature (thankfully).Yesterday we watched as a couple of elephant bulls came upon the buffalo carcass, that the Karuma pride killed a few days ago. The elephants touched, sniffed and moved the bones around ... what were they thinking? They have no [...]
WOW it is raining a lot ... really for sure! The bush is budding and flowering everywhere, even the animals seem to have an extra spring in their step. So far WE have been lucky in that non of our equipment has been fried by the huge lightning storms that we have been experiencing in [...]
Well on Saturday night the rain began to fall and it went on and on. By midday on Sunday more than 40 mm of rain had fallen ... really for sure that is a good start to the summer. The bush is in full transformation, there is water everywhere, which is why the waterholes are [...]
