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14th February Morning Drive
(Chad, Grant and
Johannes)
2 x rhino
1 x breeding herd of buffalo – Borneo, KNP Cutline
4 x buffalo bulls – Borneo, Somewhere....
1 x elephant bull – Argyle, Great North
1 x elephant bull – Argyle, Argyle Dam
14th February Afternoon Drive
(Johannes)
1 x leopard (Argyle Jnr’s boy) – Argyle, Buffalo Pan
1 x breeding herd of buffalo – Java, Crossing Below Java
1 x breeding herd of elephants – Java, Airstrip
15th February Morning Drive
(Johannes)
14 x wild dogs – Peru, Argyle Rd
1 x rhino
(Bushwork team)
1 x leopard (unidentified male) – Karans, Western Cutline
1 x breeding herd of elephants – Java, Western Cutline
1 x elephant bull – Vielmetter, Elephant Dam
1 x breeding herd of buffalo – Vielmetter, Double Highway
1 x buffalo bull – Vielmetter, Elephant Dam
15th February Afternoon Drive
(Peter)
2 x elephant bulls – Peru, Sohebele Plains
2 x buffalo bulls – Motswari, Giraffe Pan
Daily Synopsis
Following the excitement of the day before, I guess anything
was going to be a let down, but we went out and gave it our best shot. I was looking for lions, so checked the
northern and western sections to see if anything had come into the area during
the night, but didn’t have much luck besides seeing a good number of giraffes,
impalas, waterbuck and a lone elephant bull.
Petros then went and successfully helped track down two
rhinos that we got to view, albeit in a massive mopane thicket, but we spent
time with them and they soon came out into the relative “open”.
After coffee we moved back towards the camp and passed a
couple of groups of zebras, including one herd with a very small foal – we saw
more giraffe and nice general game to close off a wonderful 10 days of game
drives for me and my guests over that period.
Johannes was out on his own in the afternoon, and I believe
had a nice drive, but his best came the next morning when Peter found a pack of
wild dogs on the Argyle Rd on his way to town and phoned to let us know;
Johannes left the rhino he was watching and managed to get there in time to
view the dogs, completed a treasured Big 7 for his guests (Lion, Leopard,
Rhino, Elephant, Buffalo, Cheetah and Wild dogs!).
We went out on bush work to remove all of the marula trees
the elephants have been pushing over the last few weeks and had a great drive
ourselves – we found a leopard, a herd of buffalos and a lot of elephants – we also
could have seen a couple of rhino sightings, but chose to do some work
instead...some of the work did involve following up on a bunch of vultures that
were sitting in trees – we went on foot and found the source of their interest;
a dead and very smelly honey badger! Not
sure how it died, but possibly it succumbed to a snake bite?
Peter was out on his own in the afternoon and got to see
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