The morning drive on the 7th of July 2010 was one of my best during my 14 years in the bush. We found the Olifants west pride early morning and while following them we saw that Big Boy, the territorial male, was in a foul mood busy fighting with his [...]
Guests staying at Pondoro had a very special sighting on the 8th of November 2010 when they saw a newborn elephant calf. He was walking around on wobbly knees surrounded by the rest of the group. Everyone ( including the elephants ) was totally engrossed in the scene that no [...]
We took this video on the 11th of September 2010. The lions were resting during the late afternoon when a group of about 150 buffaloes came past. The lions were full from a kill they made from the night before and the youngsters approached the buffaloes more out of curiosity [...]
Rul found this big male leopard called Watsakile Madoda on the 12th of January on Shangana road. His territory is more than 10 000 ha which is very large for the Kruger area. He is very habituated to the vehicles and provide us with some excellent photo opportunities.
On the 4th of May Rul, master tracker and ranger at Pondoro, became the 1st person in Balule Nature Reserve to see these tiny lion cubs. The mother had killed a kudu and she went to fetch the cubs to share in the feast. He went back there early the [...]
Shaun and his guests saw how the York pride chased and killed a warthog during the morning drive on the 6th of May. This video is not for the feinthearted. I tried to edit most of the disturbing scenes away, because I really feel sorry for the poor warthog. The [...]
Rul, master tracker and ranger, found this huge male leopard just after he had killed a wildebeest calf on the 8th of January on Impalabos. The power of this magnificent animal is incredible to allow him to pull a animal of this size into a tree.
The New Year started with a bang for guests visiting Pondoro as they had this amazing sighting of 3 male lions walking right past their vehicle during the afternoon safari. They were following the rest of the pride of 19 lions.
On the 18th of December guests visiting Pondoro had the luck to witness a huge pride of 19 lions catching and killing a wildebeest during the night safari. Shaun, one of the rangers, watched the whole drama unfold as it took them more than an hour to stalk and catch [...]
We found this beautiful male leopard on the 4th of October during the afternoon safari close to Ngwenya dam.
Rul, one of our rangers, found this huge male leopard just after he killed an impala on the 4th of November.
On the morning safari of the 17th of November we found the whole York pride ( 19 lions ) at the carcasses of a baby and adult female giraffe. They killed them the night before and we had a fabulous sighting watching them feeding. The next day we found one [...]
The day after seeing 19 lions feeding on the remains of a giraffe we found some jackal and vultures fighting over the remains.
Master tracker Rul followed the tracks of a female leopard and 2 cubs and managed to take this very rare and special footage on the 2nd of November.
The next day we found this male leopard closeby the leopard kill of the previous night and saw that he had actually stolen the impala kill from the female.