I had a feeling some of the guys wouldn’t make it up for the trip to Kruger at 5. Out of 13 people originally intending to go, only 9 went. It was tough going getting up at 5 when you’re only getting to sleep at 2. Anyway we headed off on our first day in Kruger hoping to see some Big Cats. I was really looking forward to it. For me, that’s what Africa’s all about and it turned out we weren’t to be disappointed.
We headed out into the park and it wasn’t long before we were seeing some great animals wandering about living their lives.
It wasn’t long before we were literally running into big game. A big group of old bachelor Buffalo decided they wanted to cross the road in front of us at one point. I was amazed at the sheer bulk of them. They were massive. At one stage crossing the road they stared at us in the car for ages! It was class. I’d say we would be in serious trouble if we were on foot around them. They looked real mean! Still no cats though so we headed up a little bit more in a Northerly direction.
We decided to take a diversion and head to a waterhole and we were looking for anything interesting to be honest. We ended getting really lucky and spotted three Lions. A big male and 2 females. They looked relaxed and it looked like they were well fed. We saw the reason why a few seconds later. I’ve attached a cool picture of their dinner the night before. It’s amazing in Africa, nothing goes to waste.
We stopped off for some lunch along the way and headed back out for the afternoon very refreshed. We spent a good bit of time driving around not seeing much and then as we were all getting a little disinterested we spotted the piece de resistance! A beautiful male Leopard in the grass right beside the road. What a beauty! It completed my “Big 5,” and I was so happy! The Leopard was so chilled out. A number of cars pulled over to view the cat as well and one moron wouldn’t turn off his engine for ages. This particular dummies car then started to make these outrageous alarm sounds for a while. The guys in the car were all so pissed off and it took our focus off the Leopard for a while. He had enough of the attention after a while and fecked off further back off to road to get away from us. I’ve attached a lovely picture of him. These guys are a very rare sighting so we felt very lucky! Just before leaving we spotted a massive herd of Elephant coming back from drinking at the river. It was cool to see all the babies. One big male slowed us up on our way back home and it was gas, I was kind of cursing him inside for slowing us down in our rush to get to the gate!
Then we had to come to a complete halt when up ahead the two sides of the road was blocked up with traffic. We couldn’t see what they were viewing until we literally nearly could reach out and touch a massive White Rhino. This was too easy!
We came gunning down the road after seeing the Rhino. We had paused just long enough for him to walk perfectly into the range of our lenses. Then after getting some super shots and hightailing it we presumed we weren’t going to make it to the gate. We came down the hill towards the Orpen gate and the guy at the gate was literally just pulling it across to close the station for the night. We were steeped as there are big fines for people who don’t make it out of the Park in time! So a perfect end to a great day! They were all saying we had the luck of the Irish and for once I had to agree!
Another super day in Africa!
We headed out into the park and it wasn’t long before we were seeing some great animals wandering about living their lives.
It wasn’t long before we were literally running into big game. A big group of old bachelor Buffalo decided they wanted to cross the road in front of us at one point. I was amazed at the sheer bulk of them. They were massive. At one stage crossing the road they stared at us in the car for ages! It was class. I’d say we would be in serious trouble if we were on foot around them. They looked real mean! Still no cats though so we headed up a little bit more in a Northerly direction.
We decided to take a diversion and head to a waterhole and we were looking for anything interesting to be honest. We ended getting really lucky and spotted three Lions. A big male and 2 females. They looked relaxed and it looked like they were well fed. We saw the reason why a few seconds later. I’ve attached a cool picture of their dinner the night before. It’s amazing in Africa, nothing goes to waste.
We stopped off for some lunch along the way and headed back out for the afternoon very refreshed. We spent a good bit of time driving around not seeing much and then as we were all getting a little disinterested we spotted the piece de resistance! A beautiful male Leopard in the grass right beside the road. What a beauty! It completed my “Big 5,” and I was so happy! The Leopard was so chilled out. A number of cars pulled over to view the cat as well and one moron wouldn’t turn off his engine for ages. This particular dummies car then started to make these outrageous alarm sounds for a while. The guys in the car were all so pissed off and it took our focus off the Leopard for a while. He had enough of the attention after a while and fecked off further back off to road to get away from us. I’ve attached a lovely picture of him. These guys are a very rare sighting so we felt very lucky! Just before leaving we spotted a massive herd of Elephant coming back from drinking at the river. It was cool to see all the babies. One big male slowed us up on our way back home and it was gas, I was kind of cursing him inside for slowing us down in our rush to get to the gate!
Then we had to come to a complete halt when up ahead the two sides of the road was blocked up with traffic. We couldn’t see what they were viewing until we literally nearly could reach out and touch a massive White Rhino. This was too easy!
We came gunning down the road after seeing the Rhino. We had paused just long enough for him to walk perfectly into the range of our lenses. Then after getting some super shots and hightailing it we presumed we weren’t going to make it to the gate. We came down the hill towards the Orpen gate and the guy at the gate was literally just pulling it across to close the station for the night. We were steeped as there are big fines for people who don’t make it out of the Park in time! So a perfect end to a great day! They were all saying we had the luck of the Irish and for once I had to agree!
Another super day in Africa!
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