Last morning at Singita. Little cold again this morning I wore my zebra scarf and gloves.

Off we went at our standard time of 6.30 am. The leopard lost the kill to two hyenas. We were able to view the hyena very close to the vehicle and some had not yet seen hyena. The night before we went to a hyena den but the puppies just peeked out they were too young to go out and play.

The lions were found again and we were on our way to the lions when our tracker (with an incredible ability to spot game) saw two leopards together. Obviously mating leopards. Problem was the male was really kittish and ran away from the vehicle. The female just ignored the vehicle. This must have been a male leopard that came in from Kruger and not as used to the vehicle. We tracked the leopards and kept them in sight and another vehicle came and took over the sighting.

So while we were waiting for our turn with the lions we viewed a herd of elephants in the middle of a thicket of thorny trees. They looked quite different with only the top half of the elephant in view.

We got the call to move into the lions BUT at that moment they changed direction and headed off the property. Pesky leopards got in the way of our lion sighting. Normally I would take leopards over lions any day it was just the little white cub that was the attraction. That is the way safari is - sometimes nothing happening and then other times every thing at once.

On the way back we saw two very young giraffe the ranger estimated them to be about 2 months old. They were SO cute.

Fast eggs benedict and hugging everyone goodbye and we were off for our plane to Royal Malewane. As we approached the airstrip we saw Cape Buffalo all over the airstrip and the vehicles trying to clear the runway with not much success. So we ended up buzzing the runway that got their attention and they all ran off - circle around and next time we were sucessful in landing.

Cape Buffalo all over the place on the way to the lodge. The next group will arrive soon and then it is off to lunch, and then our first game drive at Royal Malewane.