Letaba

Arrived at Letaba on Monday 28 August, we managed to get a great site, the same one we were on last time we were at Letaba. We put up the full tent as Ann and Carole joined us for 3 nights. On Tuesday we went shopping for supplies in Phalaborwa.

Wednesday we went on the S47 to Mingerhout dam and found a pride of 12 Lions in the river bed.

Thursday we went along the S48 Tsendze Loop towards Mooiplaas for brunch. We had great sightings of Buffalo and Leopard.

We popped into Tzendze rustic camp to see Rodger and Selina, they took us around showing us the Scops owls and also the Barred Owl around camp. What wonderful people who run a great camp. Rodger signed Ann’s passport for young Luke.

On the way back to Letaba we found another huge male Leopard about 6 km from Letaba on the H9.

Then the highlight of the trip so far, a pack of  Wild Dog, it was 10 minutes before gate closing so we had to take as many photos as possible with flash as the light was fading fast. Nearly 60 days in Kruger to see our first dogs, what a privilege.

 Giraffe with growths all over its body, very unusual, would be interesting to hear what the experts say.

African wild cat at our camp site.

New site at Letaba

Lions on the S47 in the riverbed.

Leopard in tree near Tsendze

new on our trip list Tessebe

black shouldered kite hovering above a potential prey

The biggest herd of Elephant seen so far

Buffalo at a waterhole north of Letaba

This is supposed to be a Grysbok The black markings are unusual