Our plan for the morning was to head to the southern part to look for a male cheetah that had been seen there the day before. With the sun on the rise we worked around the open areas for fresh tracks but it was much later on in the drive that we found tracks that showed the direction of where our elusive cat had headed. We looped ahead and finally found the magnificent speedster on the move but only managed a couple minutes with him before he suddenly took off after waterbuck.
We lost sight of him while trying to negotiate through a thicker area but when we did find him he was in the process of killing a young waterbuck male of about two years of age which is … Read more