Our last evening game drive

May 3 our last evening game drive

We started by going down to the river to see if we could find a female leopard called Scotia (not named after the province). At the river we found a herd of elephants on the other side. One seemed to have got left behind and he ran across the river to join his herd, trumpeting.

We found the leopard sleeping in the bush.

Cape Wild hunting dogs had been reported and we went on a search for them. On our search we came across two male impala fighting. Joel suggested they were just practising for the rutting season that was coming soon.

After tracking the dogs for some time, Sheila spotted them in a drainage ditch. They had captured a small nyala and were eating it. Our truck got stuck by the dogs and we had to call for help to get out. At one point a hyena tried to steal the dogs kill but the dogs drove it off. We say the hyena running away with a dog at its heels.