Kgalagadi visit 17-25 August 2012 - WOW experience!
by Wessel Badenhorst
(Cape Town, RSA)
The young ones start arriving
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We were very fortunate to visit the Kgalagadi from 17 Aug the afternoon until the morning of 25 Aug 2012. And what a lucky trip it had been. Still being amateur photographers, practising a lot and with limited equipment, we were so lucky to have many sightings close to the road.
We stayed in Twee Rivieren, Mata Mata, Nossob, Kieliekrankie, Urikaruus and Kalahari Tented camp - of the new wilderness camps Urikaruus is our favourite - waterhole close by, roads in acceptable condition, and plenty of animals in the Auob river. A close second best is Kieliekrankie!
We saw big cats every day, and cheetah on 4 separate days.
Our first morning in the reserve was started with an injured leopard at a waterhole. Thereafter 6 lions. Later in the week we came upon a lion kill - 3 females killed 3 eland the previous night at Houmoed. 2 days later we see an eland carcass at Melkvlei, killed by 3 cheetah. After seeing NOTHING at Gemsbokplein for the whole week, we stumbled upon a lion kill there on our second last day - 2 sub-adult males with 2 eland being killed. The next morning a female joined them, and had a big scuffle with a black maned male which intruded.
We also saw a jackal eating nearly a whole mole snake - where he stored all that meat is still a mystery.
At Nossob the jackal and lanner falcon hunting the doves was awesome to experience.
All in all a memorable week of bliss - pleasant weather and good roads, with fantastic sightings - what more can you wish for.
Some photos of the first 2 days are attached.
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