So glad to hear you are safely in Cape Town Cindy and David. No matter how much I check details I always worry about someone not making the connection with the transfer company. I do relax once I get everyone on the ground and with Ken and me in tow!!!

We are now at Vuyatela. The nice thing about this camp is WIRELESS INTERNET and it works GREAT. Grant, Dena, Don, Michele, Gary and Anne are coming here and they will love this fast wireless internet. We will get some great pictures from Grant I am sure.

We spent two nights at Chitwa Chitwa and had a great time. During the two days game drives we saw the following.

Two lions with two four month old cubs absolutely fabulous sighting. The cubs were active and crawling all over the two lions.
Same leopard we saw two years ago "Kerala" with two NEW four month old cubs.
One leopard in a tree
Leopard in a tree with an impala kill
Cheetah(sorry Ralph) on two termite mounds and then followed her off road into the bush. We NEARLY saw a kill a gemsbok starting running out of the thicket and the cheetah took out after it but the gemsbok just disappeared and the cheetah stopped.
Rhino (3 males)
Giraffe, zebra, wildebeast, buffalo, wart hogs.
We did not see elephant but chose to look for the leopard with the cubs instead of going to the area where the other game vehicles went to see the elephant. We did find the leopard again and we were able to spend more time with the leopards - our preference.
There is a new colation of four male lions that we heard roaring last night. They made a kill and the vultures were in the air. Unfortunately they are just over the boundry line in Mala Mala they will probably move to this side tonight. WE HOPE.

There has been a change in the management with a wonderful new person in charge named Shannon. She has made some good changes and we really enjoyed Chitwa Chitwa. We went out with two different rangers each day and found them both to be excellent. One just joined he used to be the videographer for Wild Earth. Very knowledge and super nice called Rexon. Our other ranger was called SURPRISE and he suited his name. Totally into his job and we found him to be a lot of fun.

There were a few tiny things that could be better but if we decide to use Chitwa Chitwa for our next safari I can change these few things for our group. It is certainly in the running. Game was good and the lodge is beautiful. The large lake in front of the lodge was full of hippos and we saw one crocodile. The impalas and water buck were running around on the other side of the lake. Great area for breakfast and lunch, covered so no one is in the sun, with a view of the lake.

Great weather. Chilly but NOT cold in the morning never used my gloves. Warms up in the afternoon and at dinner I could wear short sleeves. Could not be better. Hope it stays this way.

Okay signing off to go to lunch Ken will try and post some pictures this afternoon and with the great internet connection it should not be a problem.