Best Week Yet!

I love South Africa! I know this because everyday I find myself saying this is the best day. Each day seems better than the last day. For example on Monday night drive we found the two lionesses we were tracking (Maggie and Lisa) with their cubs right in the middle of the road. Lisa was cleaning one of the cubs and the other two cubs where play fighting. It was such an amazing sighting. We sat and watched for about 30 mins until they lions walked off.

Tuesday morning we were tracking the Cheetah boys (Jabu and Djuma) and I got out of the truck and onto the back to do telemetry. I had just turned it on and was hearing very strong beeps but it was not from the Cheetah boys it was from Zero, the old Male lion. He was right there in the bushes, not even 5 feet from us, and neither of us saw him. He then got up and started walking away Roaring very loudly. There is nothing like a Lions roar to send chills down your spine. After this we tracked down the Cheetah boys. They were stalking some Impala and so we walked alongside them hoping to see them make a kill. Unfortunately they entered an area we could not follow but other game drive vehicles later saw them kill to Impala right on the road in front of them.

Wednesday was still another great day. We tracked down Zero and like always called in the sighting on the radio so the other game drive vehicles can bring their guests. When the one vehicle arrived at the sighting the guests thanked us again and again. Then we found the Cheetah boys, again called it in and the same vehicle arrived to the sighting the guest were so amazed by our “tracking” abilities. They looked on us with awe and were so impressed that we found these animals for them to see. If only their guide would share his tips with us.

Thursday brought us to the Elephants. We were driving along trying to track down the Lionesses when we pretty much ran into a herd of Elephants walking down the road toward us. They walked right on past our truck sniffing it with their trunks. There was 8 of them that passed 3 of these being calves and they walked so close to us that if I was brave enough (or stupid) I could have reached out and touched them. We turned around and followed them down the road until they went off into the bushes.

Like I said best drive yet!