Happy Easter!
We were lucky to have our old friend, the resident female leopard we call Twin Spots, come by the other evening and stop for a drink at the waterhole in front of the hide while the guests were enjoying dinner…
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Category: Trip Report
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Leopard cubs and Wild…
This week we had a very lucky sighting of the elusive female leopard called Nightjar and her 7 month-old male cub drinking from a small water pan after eating from an impala kill they had made.Read More »
Wild Dog !!
We were very lucky this week when a pack of rare Wild Dogs (also known as painted dogs) came on to Thornybush Game Reserve for a few days.Read More »
When a girl says…
We found our dominant male lion (named Black Dam after the place where he came from) limping on his right hind leg after spending some time with the lionesses from the Northern pride.Read More »
Christmas in the bush
Hope you all had as good a Christmas as we did! On Christmas Eve we found (or rather first smelt and then, after investigating, found!) a male leopard feeding on a young wildebeest (gnu) carcass.Read More »
Generations of leopards at…
Our resident female leopard Twin Spots has successfully raised three cubs over the last years near KwaMbili. We are extremely fortunate that she seemed to make sure she spent some time with them in and around camp, at times bringing…Read More »
Three of the Big…
Very occasionally it is difficult for the ranger out on game drive to compete with the sightings right in camp.Read More »
Sad giraffe and leopards…
Blankets are coming out and many a fire has been lit. The animals are enjoying the respite from the heat we endured in March. We had a group with us over the last week who were spoilt with good sightings.Read More »
Leopard sniffing Edde’s boot
The week at KwaMbili has been fantastic and our guests have left with happy hearts and great stories to tell their families back home. We received a report that a leopard had been located on a kill not far from…Read More »
The rains have come,…
This last week the rains we have been waiting for have finally come. Our dams have water in them, rivers are flowing and the vegetation is changing so fast with green popping up everywhere.Read More »
