The people that were going to CPT cancelled their booking and got a full refund. Not much sense going if the restaurants and tours would be cancelled. For us on safari the lockdown is not affecting us at all.

At Makanyi now. Found out we are in the midst of a territorial fight between lions. There are two big dominate males called the Ross males that are trying to push out the seven two to three year old males. Causing havoc amongst all the lions. Been a lot of fighting and interaction between lions.

The group of Birmingham females we saw with group one have been all all split up and headed in different directions. One lioness has cubs that one vehicle saw this morning. This has caused many animals to “get out of dodge” so we will see less animals than normal but perhaps some great lion sightings. Our vehicle found some sleeping lions. I think there are lions all over the place and with one group a big white lion. They saw him two days ago so we have our fingers crossed.

Leopard excitement. There is a big male leopard that is a little skittish. We found him and two vehicles worked keeping sight of him. We lost him but then found him again in the process of stalking impalas. He was more relaxed this time and we followed him as he got closer to the impala. He got right on top of the impala and unfortunately one impala saw him and sounded the alarm and the impala were gone.

Had the leopard taken an impala the lions were very close and would have heard the kill and coming rushing in. It could have been an incredible sighting.

We also had a young elephant mock charge us with ears out and his trunk flopping around. So cute.

So great start for a Makanyi.