If you had told me 8 months ago that we would be seeing Black rhino on almost every drive we made I would have called you a liar and a fool!! But here we are 8 months down the line and our black rhino sightings must be some of the [...]
On Sunday we started the afterrnoon safari not knowing that it would the drive of a lifetime!!! As I started the drive my expectations where more hopefull than the windy cold afternoon that presented itself to us. I was hoping on seeing one of the regular black [...]
I took these photos of the territorial male leopard, Watsakile, on the 29th of April on leoparden road on Impalabos east while he was patrolling his area.
Photos taken of the 2 lion cubs on the 12th of April. The adults went off hunting and the cubs stayed behind playing next to the car.
I took this photo at a buffalo kill on the 9th of April at Impalabos west.
Photos of leopards and black rhinos seem to dominate our Facebook and blog pages as sightings of these elusive animals escalated during the last few months. This makes one forget that there are still other animals around. Lions, when active, are amazing animals and the raw emotion when coming across [...]
Guests staying at Pondoro had a great sighting of Chavaluthu walking right past the vehicle on the 9th of March. He really is a beautiful leopard.
Greg, a guide at our neighbouring lodge and good friend, called me in for this sighting of 2 francolins fighting on the 21st of February. It lightened up a otherwise quiet drive. Glad I actually responded as the photo turned out alright, I think. I promised him that I would [...]
Had an amazing leopard sighting on the 24th of March. A young male leopard was seen on the Impalabos section in the late afternoon next to a small drainage line. As the sun was setting he got up went to a big marula tree and jumped in. He got higher [...]
Elephant calves have long been one of my favourate photographic subjects. Here are some photos that I have taken on the 26th of February. Elephants are abundant at the moment the bush is always a better place with breeding herds and calves around.
Guests at Pondoro saw this black rhino at wambo rd on the 26th of February. Pondoro is one of the best places in Africa to see this highly endangered animal.
We had some fantastic sightings of this most elusive of cats during the last week or two. Here are some photos taken of the 2 males ( Watsakile Madoda and Chavaluthu ) that were seen fighting on the 16th of February. The photos of Chavaluthu were taken at Elephanten Tranken [...]
A selection of photos taken during game drives in the month of February. Singwe pride on Mandleve road spotting zebra in the distance
Nick and Eric, ranger and tracker team at Pondoro, found a male leopard with a zebra kill on the morning drive on the 24th of January. I went there during the afternoon drive on the 24th and 25th and took these photos.
This female was seen on the 18th of January high up on a termite mound looking at 4 rhinos walking past. She was right next to the car and it was eerie having her staring over the car at the rhinos.