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Big Cat and Fish

Leopard! On the night drive last night Stephanie and Adrian saw a Leopard! They saw lots of animals, but I can’t tell you what they were as all they kept saying was “Leopard!!”.

Breakfast this morning brought us a handful of guests to the table, namely the Warthog family.

baby warthogs at jozini south africa

The baby warthogs are cheeky as their mum tries to steal our food

warthog bushpig south africa nature tour

Mmmmmmm foooooood....

Pongola pig warthog south africa

Mummy warthog eyes our lunch hungrily

Out on the boat again today, but disaster stuck. No sooner had we pulled away from the dock than one of the valves snapped on the steering system causing a fountain of pink fluid.

We were covered in hydraulic fluid, but Adrian and Anton were in
heaven as they tried to fix the boat!

pongola boat

After borrowing some tools from a nearby work crew the boys battled with the boat.

Stephanie and I decided that it would be unfair if we let the boys do all the hard work, so we hooked the bait on the lines and opened a couple of beers to keep us hydrated as we fished.

We were going for big catches, namely Hippo and Crocodile (or at least that is what Stephanie and I told anyone that asked)!
After a while the boys decided that the boat could wait as they could see Tigerfish from the boat where it was moored.

adrians tigerfish

Adrian Catches a Tigerfish on his second Cast!

catfish at jozini lake

Steph plays with Antons little Catfish

Crocodile at Jozini Lake

No Hippos, but we did catch our Crocodile!

jozini lake fishing

Another s*#t day in Africa....

dragonfly south africa nature tour

Dragon fly radio :)

Leopard!

New discovery at Umkhumbi Lodge today! On our daily fence patrol today we spotted Leopard tracks in the sand leading into our bushland. This explains the mystery as to why we had multitudes of Nyala (we didn’t even realise we had that many) on the path to and around the rooms this morning.

Being sensible creatures (at times) they were trying their hardest not to be where the Leopard is lurking.

We have set up a camera trap, so we hope to get some pictures to share with you soon!