MALA MALA - like coming home. The last two game drives highlights.

It is cold now in the mornings, hat, gloves, blankets and hot water bottles are necessary

They knew a leopard had a kill in a small long grass area. We drove round and round and Ralph suggested we check under a particular tree where he though he saw a slight color change. Sure enough it was a leopard and her 8 month old cub with the kill. Tracker Ralph in action. We saw our first baboons in a tree.

Our ranger saw drag marks with leopard tracks on the road that were fresh. We went off road to investigate. We saw an impala carcass in a tree and then found the leopard close by. I love it when the ranger finds an animal by skill not just on the road. We had a nice sighting with her moving around and hoped she would go up the tree to her kill. No such luck.



A huge herd of buffalo probably 200 animals were making their way to the river. We were following. Then we heard crashing sounds and two large buffalo bulls were in a serious fight. It lasted about 3 minutes and they were really hitting hard and trying to hurt each other. They were not just sparring this was obvious. Never seen anything like this before the sound was amazing. When the buffalo reached the river it was a beautiful scene. The green grass, flowing river, bright sunshine with 200 buffalo with lots of babies who were nursing while their mothers walked. The birds were great as well. Lilac breasted roller posed for pictures, a fish eagle flew overhead and storks and other birds around. We finished off with three big bull elephants.





Super fast internet now at Mala Mala vast improvement. Dinner last night was so good everyone clapped the chef. Nice being home at Mala Mala.