Soul's roar 5/9/2011

Most of the time lions sleep.. but sometimes they give us such a show... today we were blessed with such a great sighting that my face is still frozen in one big smile. Festo spotted kipunji from the upper road from w7 to Breakfast point.... it was an awesome spot, they were maybe 150 mtrs from that road... luckyly only ten meters from the Mpululu road. We went there and we watched them... cubs playing with the females were sooo cute. Actually to our surprise there was also a cub that we never saw before, less then one month old.. but in much better conditions then the older cousins...The mother of the little one managed to provide it with milk while they were by themselves while the female in the pride had nothing.One by one all the cats started moving.. slowly heading to the river in a stunning morning light. Older cubs running one after the other... then lions went in the riverbed to scan for potential preys... nothing...They came back up and some of them went laying on granite boulders.The cherry on the cake was a big female that sat on a small boulder and started roaring towards our direction... it was insane... the full roar hitting us and then echoing through the river... a soul touching experience....In the evening we went back to see them... much more quiet but still fantastic.