Big 5 safari sightings for the week of 31 July – 6 Aug ’22
Sunday 31 July 2022
- No drive
Monday 1 Aug 2022
- 12 Young Kudyela lions resting at 4/5 cutline
- 1 Masungulo male mating with a young lioness at rock fig
- 20+ Elephants feeding at top road
Tuesday 2 Aug 2022
- 2 White rhino bulls
- 100+ Buffaloes grazing at khalle stelle weg
- 30+ Elephants drinking and feeding at ngala dam
- 1 Spotted hyena at kokwana road
- 30+ Elephants feeding at koppie road
- 1 Leopardess (Nkanyi) made an impala which 3 spotted hyenas stole at pride rock
Wednesday 3 Aug 2022
- 40+ Elephants crossing olifants road heading north
- 50+ Elephants feeding at main road west
- 20+ Elephants drinking at xikulu dam
- 20+ Elephants heading north from venture camp dam
- 60+ Elephants feeding at schorstein weg
- 1 Leopardess (Nkanyi) heading north on breite weg
- 50+ Buffaloes grazing at ngulube south
- 1 White rhino bull
- 3 Black rhino
- 7 Wild dogs heading east from ngala dam
Thursday 4 Aug 2022
- 7 Wild dogs and 12 pups at the den site
- 20+ Elephants feeding at kudu weg
- 5 Kudyela lionesses and 9 cubs with 1 Masungulo male at bush lodge water hole
- 60+ Elephants feeding at nsuna road
- 100+ Buffaloes drinking at Toni’s dam
- 2 Young Kudyela lionesses at Toni’s dam
Friday 5 Aug 2022
- 1 Cheetah resting east of waterkant
- 3 Young Kudyela males and 1 lioness chased another young male lion east from kambaku
- 3 White rhino
- 40+ Elephants feeding at 1/2 cutline
- 1 Masungulo male mating with a lioness at grune boom
- 70+ Buffaloes drinking at venture camp
Saturday 6 Aug 2022
- 1 Masungulo male mating with a lioness at main road west
- 8 Young Kudyela lions resting north of pride rock
- 2 White rhino
- 4 Elephant bulls feeding on the york cutline
- 1 Leopardess (Nkanyi) with her 2 cubs north of bushbuck dam
- 3 Young male lions resting at trunken weg
- 20+ Elephants feeding at E/W cutline
It was an eventful week on safari for the sightings ending 6 August 2022.
