On our way out of Khwai some of us walk over the bridge, to stretch our legs and just to get the feel of it. The road to Savuti is long, sandy & bumpy. We set up camp which will only be for one night and head out on an afternoon game drive.
We, together with a number of other vehicles find this leopard tucked away on a ledge on the side of a koppie (little rocky outcrop). We can’t get close and he knows that! He gets up and slowly finds his way down off the ledge into the scrub below. We loose sight of him and all the vehicles jockey for position to guess where he will reappear.
The best photo’s were when he was on the ledge.
We end up on the road north and into a hive of activity as numerous trucks block the road to observe a mother and cubs gnawing away at a young giraffe that she must have killed.
There were two lion sightings, the giraffe kill at the side of the road and another down a side track where numerous lions were lounging around.
Next morning we pack up and head over to the waterhole where multiple animals are drinking and eyeing each other.
It’s another long sandy drive up to the Chobe River but we transition to a paved road for a while and stop at a roadside trading post. The story for the next two photo’s is that when we were here back in 2022 Rose and the lady shared a joke about whether she was drinking beer or a soda.
Here we are two years later and she is still here and we buy one of her traditional table cloths.
We entered the park at the Ngoma Gate and drove down to the Chobe River banks where most of the game viewing took place. The river here flows eastwards until it empties into the Zambezi at Kazungula.
Next day we went westerly looking for a leopard and her kill. We found the kill under a bush but the leopard only appeared later away from the kill.
That’s our leopard above and you can see the rippling leg muscles beneath her colorful skin. We left her and said we’d come back later to see what might have changed.
Across the way were a herd of buffalo grazing as they made their way to the river to drink. We sat and watched them as they moved slowly by with the closer ones keeping a watchful eye on us.
The afternoon gave us elephants in the river and a final Botswana sunset over the Chobe.
Its getting dark now but we swing by our leopard sighting and catch her in the open and her cub made brief appearances to tease with it’s presence.
Last full day we exited the park and our Bushways safari was coming to a quick end. Sandi, Chris & Cadan picked up a self drive in Kasane while the rest of us said good bye to Moscow & Chicco and transfered to a Zimbabwe shuttle to our hotel in Victoria Falls.
Many thanks to everyone that participated especially Moscow our guide and Chicco our cook.
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