Some days you just get lucky... Other days you wait patiently for luck to happen - Destin Sparks

It goes without saying that the more you’re out exploring the landscape and using your collective expertise to track and find these animals, the “luckier” you’re going to be. I believe in putting in the effort to find the particular animal of focus, but even then we can get lucky. More often than not though, we are patient and we convince our guests to spend the time with these magnificent creatures, and should they do this, then the odds of seeing something extraordinary is doubled. The focus this week is on some of the female leopards considered residents in the area and some images in which the elements above came into play.

Hlarulini with a duiker kill that we observed her making the previous evening.

Another image of Hlarulini while she was taking a break from her pursuit of Maxabeni.

After waiting with Little Bush as she slept away the afternoon in a riverbed, she finally got up, called her cub and off they went into the sunset, literally. There were only 3 good minutes of an hour sighting.

A different angle of a shot I posted previously on this blog of Little Bush’s cub looking for a way to descend the tree she was in after feeding on a hoisted kill.

This was taken during the same sighting, early in the morning and just a fantastic experience spent with Little Bush and her little girl.

Spending time with Lisbon is always amazing and 9 out of 10 times, will see her ascending a tree for our viewing pleasure.

Lisbon is also extremely adept at killing small duiker antelope and on this occasion, we watched the full hunt. It was an exhilarating experience.

The beautiful White Dam female, resting after having consumed a portion of her impala kill.

Not an amazing behaviour or anything like that, but just taking the time to appreciate the luck of even being able to send time with one of these naturally elusive animals.

An older female that has been a huge part of my life here at Sabi Sabi and one that’s time with us will be coming to an end very soon as the younger generations move in. I have spent many pleasurable hours with Warthog Wallow and I will miss her when she’s gone.