The week started off with a pleasant surprise – a sighting of these two Klipspringers showing off their talent as they leapt from boulder to boulder. It’s not often they hang around long enough to truly appreciate their beauty and uniqueness.

With the temperatures steadily increasing, animals are frequenting the various waterholes across the reserve as they quench their thirst, cool down and engage in a bit of fun and games...

Elephants are always a treat to spend time with, constantly doing something, mainly involving eating which takes up around 80% of their day.

We came across one male and two female ostriches walking over a big open area.

Patience is the name of the game and hyenas have a lot of it. This hyena decided to have a snooze while waiting for scraps of meat near to where a leopard had a bushbuck kill stashed in a tree.

This magnificent Nyala bull was on duty to welcome guests making their away to the Amani Spa at Bush Lodge.

This beautiful Secretary Bird seemed like it was preparing itself for the next Soccer World Cup as it was kicking some elephant dung around – possibly looking for a snack to eat!

We came across these two giraffe bulls fighting over a female giraffe. What an incredible sight to witness!

Black with white stripes or white with black stripes? Well they actually have black and white stripes of fur but if you would have to shave the fur off of a zebra, you will find that the underlying skin tone is actually a dark colour more closely resembling black.

More often than not, the first animal you can expect to see on safari! Here a herd of impala warm up in the morning sunshine.

Although named a Kingfisher, the Brown-hooded Kingfisher rarely eats fish. It has a varied diet which includes insects, mammals, reptiles and seldomly fish. It hunts by sitting on a perch, searching for prey. Once prey is located, it rapidly flies down to grab it with its bill and then flies back to its perch where the prey is consumed.

After some serious tracking, we eventually caught up with Maxabeni for a short time before he moved into a very dense area to take shelter from the hot day that lay ahead.

The Msuthlu female was resting in a dead Knobthorn tree after having her hard-earned kill stolen by a larger male. All she could do was watch on as he consumed what was left of it. She later moved off to quench her thirst at a nearby pool of water.

Just as we thought it was the end of our afternoon safari, we came across Kigelia at the vehicle parking bay in front of Little Bush Camp. She was probably stalking some bushbuck that were hanging around the lodge.

Even though the White Dam male had a full belly, he still took the opportunity and killed a scrub hare. The squeal of the scrub hare attracted a whole clan of hyenas who were eager to steal the kill off the male leopard, luckily this male leopard saw them coming and jumped up a big Marula tree.

Ntsumi was relaxing on a termite mound where after she proceeded to move around, looking for something to hunt before the heat of the day set in.

A delight to come across 5 very lazy Southern Pride members, checking the surrounds for any potential meals.

Until next time...