Thank you Kruger Park for a fantastic visit. In the past two weeks, we have seen just about everything there is to see in the Kruger – the big 5 (elephant, buffalo, lion, leopard and rhino), all the usual animals, honey badgers, roan and sable antelope, and many...

Well, it’s a good day when you see a hyena, a honey badger, six lions, one black rhino and four white rhino before breakfast. Admittedly, breakfast only happened after 10:00am, but we were occupied with other things. Wonderful to see a black rhino, but the poor animal...

Along with watching all the animals we’re seeing, we’re also watching all the ‘wildlife’ in the campsites – the regular oldies who have this camping stuff down to a T – and it seems that we have a great deal to learn. Some essentials that we are apparently missing: A...

We’re in the centre of the park now – more grassland, which means even more game plus more predators. We’ve now spotted our fourth leopard, as well as a cheetah, several wild dogs and many many hyena. In fact, a couple of the hyena have been just a little too close...

The last couple of days have been about quantity. Flocks of literally thousands of red-billed queleas sitting in the trees and then rising like a swarm to cast a moving shadow across the sky; dozens and dozens of elephants; an enormous herd of buffalo – quite easily...

On the drive up to Punda Maria, we had the most incredible leopard sighting. Another vehicle had spotted a leopard way across the dry river, on the opposite embankment. We stopped to look, and could see her clearly, but she was a long way off. Then, she stood up,...

So, great excitement to have a honey badger and a spotted genet visit us at our braai last night. Nige cooked up some lovely pork fillet, and we had some left over for sandwiches the next day. Into the fridge it went, along with some baby potatoes, onions and...

Not a bad first day in the Kruger. Saw four of the Big 5: elephant, buffalo, rhino (seven white rhino including a mother and a young calf), plus a beautiful leopard. To top it off, we saw, from the stoep of our rondawel, a wild cat and a honey badger in the evening....