June 21

a stunning safari last week ended with a amazing sighting...On Saturday afternoon, we headed out for our usual game drive/sundowner..and just after spotting a couple of zebra and some elephants we were going to turn around and head for the vlei to watch the sun go down, when David spotted the wild dogs! So we watched these for a while and after about 10 minutes they decided it was time to get up and head out..so we followed them for a bit and then decided to go up to the top  of a little hill to see if we could see them from there. We got out of the vehicle and walked a short while and there they were..and there was a lone wildebeest and so the wild dogs started to chase the wildebeest which is quite a big animal for them to chase but still worth a try. When all of a sudden the wildebeest changed direction and came straight for our little group standing on the hill, we all had our hearts in our mouths as the pack of 12 wild dogs came after this wildebeest straight for us! It finally saw us and changed direction to go past us about 20 meters away from us! Phew what a sighting!!

April 12

All well here, a very fun safari last week, with about 200mls of rain which is most of our annual rainfall  we had some very exciting times! Despite the weather guests had lots of fun. A lovely leopard sighting from horseback and about 250 elephants crossing the Pitsani river which actually had water in it were the highlights of the week. Also a very unusual sighting of a python killing a young impala and starting to eat it slowly.

The sun is out again and we look forward to seeing our new guests later today...

November 17

Our guests had wonderful sightings on the horses last week... their first morning out they saw the pride of lions chasing off the new lioness in town and the cubs were hiding in bushes right near them! The following day they saw the lions again. They also saw leopard twice on horseback this week! And guests had a fabulous canter with giraffe.

November 3rd

A fantastic final Tuli for 2009, leopard from horseback, a lovely sighting of the leopard on the rocks close to Main Camp...plus lion in the vlei, with lots of eland and wildebeest around so quite exciting...Also leopard and lion again from the game drive...No rain as yet so its still very dry and dusty, altough clouds are building up and it should rain shortly!

October 26

A great Tuli ride was had by all last week, good sightings especially of a huge haeyena from horseback, also african wild cat, marshall eagles and the first of the elands has started dropping their calves; some very wobbly legs out there at the moment..and of course elephants, and this time just lion from the game drive too..

October 18

A good Big 5, guests enjoyed some great haeyena sightings in the Limpopo River which has amazingly only just dried up now. As well as plentifull elephants, lion from the game drive and some lovely warm evenings with gorgeous sunsets..It is building up to a good rain here with hot and quite humid weather but we hope it holds out until our last 2 Tulis are over!!

October 6th

A little more rain here to settle the dust and keep all the mammals happy...and good sightings to complete the Big 5 rides of leopard jumping from tree to tree, lion making a half hearted attempt to catch a giraffe and plenty of ellie and plains game too...

June 1st

A super week on safari, plenty of sightings and lovely sunny days with cooler nights. It seems the wild dogs are denning close to Liana camp again this year and are due to pup in the next week or two..

Below id a picture taken by a guest last week of Cor and Harvey jumping a log...

May 4

This week started with the most amazing introductory ride I have ever been on. After doing our test canter individually with two giraffe watching us, we set of at a canter and had 21 giraffe cantering on our right and a big herd of wildebbest on our left, as we pulled up there was black backed jackal sitting in front of us and ostrich on the horizon. Not even 10 minutes later we all got a good sighting of a leopard crossing our path about 20 metres in front of us!! That was a hard to beat 1 hour ride!!! The rest of the week was also excellent with leopard again on the drive, and a huge herd of elephant on the thursday morning.

April 28

Attached this weeks availability. A great week for Cor and David on safari. Canters with wildebeest, zebra and giraffe. Plenty of giraffes which are becoming more and more relaxed by the minute with the horses around and leopard from the game drive as well as a lioness on the last evening sundowner drive.....Its getting cooler at night with lovely sunny days and lots of old grass around too so still lots to eat for the game..

February 23

Attached this weeks availability. A good start to this weeks Big 5 ride, nice ellie sightings, a huge phyton and tons of giraffes!  As you can see its still lush and altough the yellow devils thorn flowers have faded we have the lovely purple cats tails to remind us its still summer!

February 16

A good week on safari numerous highlights including being surrounded by about 200 elephants one morning, very close up sightings of giraffe, eland,kudu,haeyena, and lovely big herds of impalas. Its still very lush here and surprisingly cool for this time of year, so looks like we might have a cool winter ahead!

November 30
A fantastic week to finish our season....a fabulous group and plenty of game too. I think the highlight was wild dog on a impala kill from horseback but the rides also saw lions on two days as well as numerous elephants, very relaxed and close up Haeyna. From the game drives guests saw badger which is rare, the wild dogs again, leopards, lions and of course all the plains game too...

We were lucky enough to have a excellent horse physiotherapist here this week and he managed to re-align all the horses backs so the horses are all happy and relaxed as they start their 6 week holiday.

October 27

A very good week on safari..of which the highlight was probably seeing a lioness lying with his legs up in the air against a tree from horseback! Luckily West spotted the ears twitching otherwise she could easily have been mistaken for an odd log! As she was a mere 50m away the ride did a quick about turn and left quietly before she could wake up and see the horses! Otherwise good leopard from the game drive, and lots of ellies as usual..

 October 13
 

West and Mpho had an excellent 4 days of safari last week; a lioness whilst leaving the Two Mashatus camp in the morning, cheetah from horseback from Zederberg to Liana, leopard and cheetah again from the game drive and a big male lion from horseback on the way back to Two Mashatus..We have decided to nickname West the Cheetah man as he has seen so many this month! It is getting hot at times with temps up to 40 degrees at lunch time but with some cool nights and the occasional overcast day too..

September 22

This week started with a spectacular elephant sighting. After the initial getting to know you with our new guests and their horses, we rode to the banks of the Limpopo and as we stood there we watched what must have been 100 plus elephants crossing the river in front of us. Some of them then came to drink water right under us as our horses grazed on the bank..Spectacular! An exciting last night with lions around the Two Mashatus camp and an exhilerating last ride to our new paddocks and stables to finish off the week...

August 29

A spectacular safari so far...The first evening on the drive to our Two Mashatus camp, Cor stopped to see some elephants by the Dam wall and then saw five lions on his other side..a amazing sighting which got even better when the lions started roaring all around them...to top it all the following morning as they were leaving camp three lionesses walking coolly past the vehicle..needless to say none of our guests are going to wander to far from the group on this week!

It is getting warmer now and we all feel that summer is just around the corner with a few afternoons of 30 plus degrees..

August 22

A good few days on safari; plenty of good sightings of ellies, bat eared fox, kudus, eland, giraffe, zebra and some nice sightings of yellow billed storks and the woolly necked stork. I also had the good fortune to encounter the wild dogs last night, returning from a hack I came around the corner was suddendly surrouned by these special dogs. I had Lucy the little jack russell with me so had to hop off very quickly pick her up otherwise she would have been dog food! Much to our amazment these dogs then killed a impala last night inside our lunge arena..the horses were all surprised and had a good look at it this morning!

August 8

Monday at Jwala camp the elephants came and paraded along the oposite river bank giving everyone a excellent photo opportunity..More spectacular elephant sightings at Kgotla, three diffrent familys of 20 each, and some mating too! And then on the way to Liana, our guests came across a baby giraffe leftin a bush until his mum came back, probably about a week old..very cute...And last night a great game drive with very relaxed lions on a eland they just killed. 

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