This morning’s game drive could not have been more action packed. We spent the morning tracking Dawane, a huge male leopard, who had made a kill the day before. We located him eventually, lying in extremely dense spike thorn, just a spot on his back and flick of a tail visible. “Good things come to those who wait”, so we made the call to sit it out, hoping he would soon move off to feed again on the carcass he had stashed in some bushes just a few hundred meters away.
Luck was on our side, as soon a female hyena popped up over the rocks on the other side of the river bed. She had clearly smelt the carcass and was on a mission. Dawane, lying oblivious under the … Read more