Sandibe Wrap-up
Not many laundry services have to warn that hyenas may raid the laundry room.
This is the open lounge area at Sandibe.
This tree overlooks our breakfast table and our cousins look down at us.
They quite make themselves at home in the lounge.
This is a giant eagle owl. The tracker did well to spot him in the tree.
I loved this tree – a sausage tree.
We ran into those five lions for the third day running – by accident the last two times. We were tracking a leopard and instead of finding the leopard, we saw the lions again, but …
Someone then looked up a tree, and saw the leopard. The lions must have turned up suddenly and the leopard did not want to risk a confrontation, so he headed up the tree. Lions will not eat leopards but they might kill them, as it reduces the competition for food. I guess deep down lions are socialists who don’t like competition 🙂
The leopard came down the tree after around 15 minutes, and sure enough one of the lions set off after it, and chased it for 600 metres or so.
Now this is a truly rare daytime sighting – a porcupine. Don’t get too close to it unless you want a face full of quills.
Some giraffes.
A crimson breasted stripe.
Didn’t note this one’s name down.
A red lechwe antelope (I think).