Young Pride: Video

Late yesterday afternoon I took an easy drive past the old favourite, Banyini Pan; there is just so much activity at the moment. This might not last with the grass growing tall and showers of rain to help it along. I was just in time to catch the young pride of lions from the South poaching on Sjambok’s territory – I would not want to be in their paws if they were caught out!

Lions are known to kill other lions in their territory, but I think they know the pride is moving up in the hills with cubs on the way, we hope. The interesting thing is that these guys were just as relaxed with us around as Sjambok’s pride.

After taking a few photographs of them lying sprawled out next to the pan, they were provoked by the sound of Zebra passing by. In typical lion style, each lion was waiting for the other to kick into action and catch themselves some dinner. At first I thought there were only four lions, but then as the hunt began we counted six lions. We don’t see much of these lions so it was good to spend time with them and hunt with them. They are really in good shape; the male is still young and does not even have a mane yet.

This morning was rescue the terrapin day. There is a pool of water we drive through to get to our house and there were a few very small baby terrapins inside. Each time a car came driving through, there would be a whole lot of paddling going on as they made a break for the bushes. I thought I’d give them a fighting chance and dropped them down at the dam. There were only two left to save, but at least they can now go on their merry way.

Kim is out flying to see if he can pick up on the dogs, I hope we see them soon, I’m getting withdrawal symptoms – hey, the thrill of the bush!