Berg En Dahl Day 8

Today would be our last proper game drive so I was up at 5am making coffees. We left camp at 5:45am and stuck to 35kph scanning the bushes. We passed a big herd of zebra early on and then elephant and then it was just big herds of impala for a while.
The gravel roads I wanted were still closed and so we had to stick to the tar roads and just before we got to the picnic site we came across the young hyena we saw yesterday and grabbed a few shots. We carried on past the picnic site and just as we rounded a bend a pack of wild dogs ran out in front of us. For a while there was just 2 of us and the car in front was Sanparks rangers and soon moved off making us the lead car. We drove down the road with Ellie steering and my photographing as the wild dogs ran next to the car. It was incredible, as soon as I had the shots I moved on. Then around the next bend there were loads of cars and game vehicles. There must have been 20 cars and atleast 6 game vehicles. We joined the queue thinking it was lions again but in actual fact it was a leopard laying down right next to the road.
As the cars in front got there shots they moved on and we moved up and then the cars in front just parked up. They didn’t even have phones out they were just there to watch and as the leopard got up and ran across the road in front of the cars it became carnage. I was completely cut off by 2 cars from behind that drove past us blocking us in. The leopard ran back and was now petrified. Most cars there hadn’t turned their engines off and were just ready to move whenever the leopard did. In the end after 10 minutes the leopard moved off. I didn’t get any photos even though it was right in front of us, and we moved on.
Just a few kilometres down the road I did a U turn and made for camp. All in all it had been a successful game drive, wild dog, hyena and a leopard.
Back at camp I went for a 5k run to clear my head and when I got back to camp there was the elephant back at our fence line and he stayed there for about 90 minutes, I think he’s just as curious about us as we are of him.
Once the elephant had gone we went for a nap for an hour and when I got up I watched a monkey helping himself to some guys lunch while that same guy struggled to put his awning up. The monkey looked like he was at the cinema eating popcorn watching a film. He was very comfortable.
After watching the monkey and with the heat really getting up we went to the pool for our last swim of the trip. Then it was back to camp to light the Braai. Today we had steak with Wors relish and potato’s.Læs mere