Tuli leopards!!!
wow!!!
its all happening here! I was bringing some of the students back from their shift during a 24hr water count, at about 1/2 past midnight when we spotted a leopard crossing the track in front of us! I pulled over next to the place we saw it, swithced off the engine and lights and pointed the spot light into the bush: lo and behold there’s a full grown wild Tuli leopard sitting about 10ft away from the Landie!!!….a Landie with no doors, no windows and no roof!!! the Leopard sat for a minute or so looking at us and then forgetting about us, basically, then wandered a few more feet away and stayed there for a while before wandering out of site into the bush!!!! AMAZING!!!! and curiously not scarey at all!
Then last Saturday we got another sighting of a leopard – a little further away but during the same transfer with the SAME people!!!..CRAZY!!! this time it was stalking along the bush just to the side of the road, we followed it along the road and then watched as it wandered backwards and forwards for a few minutes trying to figure us out I guess – got some pics of it this time, but not very good as it was too far away for the flash
Ive got to tell you – they are the most BEAUTIFUL animals!…very lithe and sleek and their coats are BEAUTIFUL
we’ve started getting Cheetah prints on the tracks here (mainly down the western ‘cutline’) so we hope to see one of them soon too!
oh, and we still regularly get charged by ellies etc
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