Third day on safari at Londolozi

We are on day three of safari and have been on 6 game drives so far with 2 more to go. At this point we have seen the Big Five and much more. Believe it or not safari is hard work, the 5am wake up calls have not been getting any easier which is not helped by the fact that any time not on game drive is filled with eating and drinking. Our morning drives are usually 4 hours and the evening drive 3+ hours. Never could I have imagined having the patience to sit in a vehicle for that long but just when I think I have had enough we come across an amazing sight. This morning was particularly tough, it poured rain for the first 2 hours of our drive and we didn't see much of anything (a giraffe here, zebra there, yawn!) we were trying to track down either a herd of elephants or buffalo and were having no luck. I was telling myself that I would not do tomorrows morning drive and the next thing you know we are looking at a leopard trying to wrestle its kill out of the tree, quite a sight, and totally worth the wait.

Yesterday Mike and Neeta from Vancouver left and were replaced by a couple from Mumbai, India. They actually turned out to be very lovely. They have been on safari many times and just jetted down here for 4 days on there way to Dubai (because this was totally on there way there!).

This is us with Neeta and Mike and our ranger David and our tracker Lucky.

This elephant just strolled by our camp.

We spent quite some time trying to track down these lions. They are two lioness' one with four 8 month old cubs and the other with two 3 month old cubs (there were 4 but 2 were killed by water buffalo 10 days ago). The cubs were so cute, we sat and watched them play for over an hour. As we drive around Jess and I both have the opening number of "The Lion King" playing in our head (live broadway version). FYI according to our ranger hyenas got a bad rap in that movie and all male lion are like Scar. There are no nice sweet Mufasa males.

Here is the leopard that we found last night and watched her climb into a tree for a rest.

Our tracker spotted this guy in a tree as we were driving home. On the drive home I was jumping around like a nelly schoolgirl as we were pelted with orange beetle like bugs that flew into our lights, not fun.

This is the leopard that we found today. Leopards drag their kills into the trees so the hyenas and other animals don't get them. We watched this guy climb into the tree and then try drag his kill out of the tree but the kill got stuck and he was swinging back and forth, amazing to see.

Running off for another game drive now. Very hard to blog with this schedule!!!!! Tomorrow, we have an early morning drive, fly to JHB at 2:30 pm and meet up with Madelaine, who Jess taught with in Taiwan, before our flight to London where we will spend 2 days.