On Saturday evening, we were encountered with a wonderful surprise, when we discovered a pride of lion we had not seen before. We found the big five pride on the prowl right across the river from camp.
The pride make-up looked to be 4 mature lionesses, a young male of around 3-4 years of age and 5 lion cubs of varying ages. They were fairly nervous of the vehicles which indicated that they may have come from an area with very little vehicle activity or even the Kruger National Park.
During the night, the pride must have splintered as they proceeded to roar the night away around our tented safari camp. This fantastic serenade continued into the earlier hours of the morning. The pride then moved off and successfully hunted down a buffalo cow and managed to finish the carcass off in only one day!
This provided us with a fantastic opportunity to see the pride feeding and witness a clan of hyenas’ come in and patiently wait their turn in the hope of picking up some scraps. Hopefully they stick around and provide us with some more action packed moments.
We will keep you up to date.