Big 5 Sightings 10 – 16 December 2012

The Big 5 highlight of the week was seeing Salayexe, the female leopard and her cub, playing and jumping over the rain puddles on The Rocks!

Salayexe and her cub, playing in a water puddle - Willie Woest

Monday, 10 December 2012

(33 ºC and 25mm of rain)

• One buffalo bull feeding around Kuala Bear view point
• Lemula, the male leopard, walking east on A-main close to Tamboti open area
• Nkuhuma, the sub adult male lion, resting on the fire break close to Simbambili dam
• One buffalo bull resting in the mud on Sixes Road

Tuesday, 11 December 2012

(24 ºC)

• Herd of twenty elephants feeding east on Marula Bult
• Salayexe, the female leopard, hiding from the rain under a tree on Marula Bult Central
• Two elephants bulls feeding north on Robson’s boundary

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

(28 ºC)

• Two Lionesses of the Break Away pride, resting at Poacher’s Corner
• One big elephant bull feeding on Rocky Road

Beautiful sunset - Willie Woest

Thursday, 13 December 2012

(33 ºC)

• Salayexe, the female leopard and her cub, hissing and swatting at a vine snake on Rhino Ring East
• Two elephant bulls feeding on Mamba Road
• One buffalo bull resting in a mud wallow just off of Sixes Road
• Five buffalo bulls resting in the water on Mamba Road

Friday, 14 December 2012

(31 ºC)

• Nkuhuma, the sub-adult male lion, resting at Picanini Utah water hole
• Herd of forty elephants feeding around Leadwood Road
• Two buffalo bulls feeding on EP and Shirley’s Cutline
• Five buffalo bulls resting in Kraaines water hole

Saturday, 15 December 2012

(33 ºC)

• One Elephant bull walking at Kudu Drift
• Tingana, the male leopard, feeding on an impala lamb kill up in a tree west of Safari airstrip
• One buffalo bull resting in the water off of Sixes Road
• Three buffalo bulls feeding around Ncombe Road
• Nkuhuma, the sub adult male lion, sleeping at One Eye Pan

Woodland's King Fisher - Willie Woest

Sunday, 16 December 2012

(30 ºC)

• One buffalo bull feeding around Old Bushcamp
• Small herd of five elephants feeding south on Pump Track
• Two buffalo feeding on Wetpatch open Area