The next night went to Skukuza campsite for 3 nights and then to Berg en Dal campsite for another 3 nights.
We had some amazing animal sightings, saw five leopards and 27 lions. Sat for two hours and watched two leopards in a tree having a go at each other, when we arrived one was in the tree and was agitated and kept looking down to the ground and then a leopard jumped onto the tree and climbed up effortlessly to a branch above the other one and then they growled and fake charged each other, was quite a show.
The other two leopards we came across was at Berg en Dal early in the morning and caught a hyena stealing an impala carcass right from the leopards mouth and they just roamed around licking the blood on the ground.I must have taken a roll or two of film of that, what a luck. The fifth leopard crossed the road, ambled a bit in the bush and then was gone.
There were hours when we didn't see anything and then boom, a huge pride of lions with cubs and on another occasion we got to see a hyena devour an impala for an hour. Only saw one rhino briefly and our neighbors in camp saw seven lying in the road and waited an hour for them to move and then saw another three.
Monday 18th April
We left Kruger and went up to Hoedspruit to Jurie and Natale. I met them 26 years ago at Glacier View Golf Course when I was building some condo's on the golf course. He is a doctor and they live in Regina, Canada. I had them come over for dinner and then a few months later they came and stayed with us for a weekend in Columbia Falls. We lost contact with them and then about two years ago Jurie called me out of the blue. We stayed in touch and then last year he had clon cancer and I didn't hear from him at all, after I texted him a few times and then I gave up. The day we arrived in Mozambique he called me and he was on the farm and invited us to come up there, which we did. It is Klaserie which is next to Timbavati which is all connected to Kruger.
On our first game drive on the 3600 hectares of his farm we came across a huge Cape Buffalo in the riverbed and then Charmain saw a brown thing in the bush and out came two lions. Had we been two minutes earlier or later we would have missed them, it's just luck on timing.
We stayed three nights and braaied every night and chugged a few beers. Had elephant come to the drinking hole and some lions roaring at each other clos to camp , so we drove out to try find them but had no luck. Was a great visit and Jurie is here for three months and I have a feeling it will be for a lot longer.
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