Wildcast

1st April 2000
No extra lessons required. Tjololo’s basic instincts have taken over and the couple were mating at regular intervals through the night.
To find the leopards we travelled on tracks that hadn’t been used for the last 8 weeks for obvious reasons. Some of these having been turned into gaping gullies. But again Japanese engineering pulled through and our Toyota came through with flying colours.
While observing some hyaena we were alerted to the spine chilling gurgle/growl of the mating leopards further down the road. A truly awesome sound that will raise the hair on your back when you hear it for the first time. But our excitement had to wait as we got wedged into a narrow gully while trying to cross.
We were shortly on our way and found Tjololo mating with the White-cloth Female, her persistant antics obviously having paid off.

Having had to leave them as they headed up along the banks of the Sand river, the vehicle was brought to an abrupt halt. Like hitting a brick wall, a hidden stump buckled the vehicles tie rod and breast plate but it was still drivable. Some major repairs to be done at camp.