by Andries | Feb 10, 2011 | Leopard
Leopard Sightings for January 2011 This month really has been a great month @ Kapama for seeing Leopard. The vast majority of these sightings (18 out of 43) were of a young female Imbilo and her two cubs. They were seen nearly every day and the cubs are now...
by Andries | Jan 1, 2011 | Lion
Thuli (my tracker) and I set off early on Boxing Day with one goal – to track down the Lions which had evaded us on our last two safaris. We had hoped it would be a belated Christmas gift to our guests, who were dying to see them. We had not even covered half a...
by Andries | Dec 20, 2010 | Birds, General
Every year in November birders from across South Africa get together and try to identify as many birds as they can within a 24 hour period. The competition is organised by BirdLifeSA and the results are used to establish which birds occur where, as well as other...
by Andries | Dec 3, 2010 | Special nature events, Wild encounters
When the first real rain fell about two weeks ago it brought such relief to the dry dusty ground of Kapama. Within a few days the new green shoots of grass were starting to appear. My guests who were in-house for four nights also commented on the change in the grass...
by Andries | Nov 30, 2010 | Buffalo, General
A few days ago one of my guests asked to go on a bush walk after breakfast. Earlier, during the morning safari we had seen a group of three buffalo bulls moving eastward close to Karula. Keith was very keen to learn some bush craft and so I saw an opportunity to...
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