THIRD EDITION OF WEEK IN PICTURES #3 It has been a challenging week for the guides and trackers, no sighting came easy, the wildlife of Pondoro kept us on our toes all the time and made sure too keep us guessing. Even though it was a tough week, on completion [...]
SECOND EDITION OF WEEK IN PICTURES #2 This week has been everything but disappointing, from the start to the end we have been amazed by the sightings that the bush was producing. Towards the end of the week the dried out dusty landscape got refreshed with two days of downpour. [...]
FIRST EDITION OF WEEK IN PICTURES #1 This marks the first edition of the week in pictures. The aim of week in pictures is too look back at the sightings we've had during the course of the week and highlight those we (Guides and Trackers) enjoyed just as much as [...]
Balule lion prides (central and southern Balule): Balule Private Nature Reserve is approximately 50 000ha in size and unfenced to Kruger National Park thus forming part of a 3 500 000ha open ecosystem which not only borders Mozambique, but also includes a 1 000 000ha of neighboring Mozambique. Pondoro Game [...]
Some photos of mating lions on the 14th of April 2016. Mating lions are fast becoming a regular item during our wildlife safari drives as the females of Noengu Mafazi's pride (River pride) and Pride of 6 (Impalabos pride) are getting more familiar with the Mohlabetsi male coalition. Lionesses go [...]
Balule Private Nature Reserve is about 50 000ha in size and open (unfenced) to Kruger National Park creating an open natural ecosystem of about 3 500 000ha as Kruger Park is also open to about 1 000 000ha in Mozambique. One of the advantages of being situated in a South [...]
Leopards are obviously high up on the wish list for guests going on a luxury African safari . Herein lies the caveat. The iconic photo of a leopard in a tree creates the impression that this is what they always do. So visitors do not only want to [...]
We know the location of most of the den sites of the hyena clan that lives on the southern section of the Pondoro traversing area. This gives Pondoro guests ample opportunity to take some fantastic photos of this highly intelligent and amazing animals. They are completely habituated to the safari [...]
The Holy Grail of wildlife photography has always been for me to photograph mating leopards. Leopards are notoriously secretive and are generally regarded as the most difficult of the Big 5 to see. If I was a betting man I would probably give you better odds on seeing a unicorn [...]
I have called Pondoro my home for 19 years and been a dedicated amateur photographer for probably about 16 of those years. In that time I have never really taken a photo of a crocodile to be writing home about. I have also only really taken about 20 photos of [...]
We found a pride of 7 lions early morning on the 2nd of January 2016. They were absolutely gorged trying their best not to look too uncomfortable, but doing a bad job at it with bloating stomachs looking like giant balloons protruding from their bodies as they lay panting on [...]
The hot, dry weather of the summer so far brought with it some wonderful photographic opportunities. Animals would gather at the watering holes to cool down and take a break from the smoldering midday heat. I managed to catch elephants drinking and bathing at a few of our dams during [...]
We were busy watching a group of young elephant bulls drinking when this big tusker arrived. He is well known in this reserve and he is probably the highest ranked elephant bull in our concession area although not the biggest tusker and go by the name of Shoshangaan. He was [...]
I took these photos on the 9th of December of the completely gorged younger coalition partner of the big Mohlabetsi male lion. This group of 8 male lions killed 2 buffaloes during the night, after I photographed them lazing around the day before. The Mohlabetsi male was feeding on a [...]
I have not gone on a safari drive for quite a while and I jumped for the opportunity to take some images of lions after Ranger Sam told me that a group of 8 male lions were resting not too far from camp on the 8th of December. This was [...]
