I love when we find lions before sunrise... Two lioness and three cubs
close to Mbuyu ya chupa. The cubs were a bit shy but they slowly came
out. These are healthy cubs and their conditions reflect in their
behaviour, they were running and playing, chasing each other around
and even climbing their mother back to her disappointment.
It was really good fun and a great show for my friends... eventually
they crossed the road and moved into shade....
The day was still long and we went on towards the river drive. The day
was quite hot and wildlife quite still but nonetheless we enjoyed our
time.
Later on we got a very vague information about a leopard on a tree
with an impala kill, we looked every three for kilometers without
success and eventually decided to head back to camp.... and surprise,
we spotted him on the way back... in a completely different place from
where we were told... but he was there, nicely sitting in the fork of
a baobab with a big impala ram stashed on an higher branch....
We know this male well, is one of the biggest around, the one with
only half of the right ear, the one that we saw mating in june..... We
know this male and we really love him... it is an astonishing
creature, beauty and power in a perfect mix.... no need to say that my
crew of friends was touching the sky with a finger for the joy.
Happyness!!
In the afternoon we went towards Mwayembe, a couple of kilometers from
the clearing we got lions eating a giraffe they probably killed the
day before, we enjoyed the few lioness and a single male but I was
wondering where the cubs were.... I thought they may have gone to
drink all the way to the spring to get water.
We headed in that direction and we found them with other females
coming back towards the kill.... stunning.
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