It is a known fact that cats, in general, are not big fans of water. This is even more so in the wild as, generally speaking, water is an incredibly dangerous place for an animal of any kind to be around, as they have the fear of what may be lurking in the darkness. So, with this in mind, to see any of our cats (lions or leopards) walking across the river is a phenomenal sighting to behold! Rangers wait years to see a crossing and when it happens there is a lot of excitement and showing off of pictures that goes on afterwards in the rangers room! So when ranger, Dean Smithyman, got back from drive, head hanging low, only to tell us that his camera had run out of battery we were all, needless to say, very disappointed! What none of us knew at this stage was that there were Londolozi guests who would come to the reascue! This Londolozi guest, Colin Toomer, was kind enough to share some of his wonderful pictures of this sighting with us…Enjoy!
The Munghen Pride (Tsalala Breakaway) have got cubs new cubs! One of the cubs resting on a log.
The cubs are incredibly vulnerable out in the open like this so you can see mom keeping an eye out for any potential danger to the cubs, even though they are oblivious at this stage. This picture shows the difference in size of the two different ages of cubs.
One of the older cubs heading towards the river!
Single file behind mom!
Last female to cross, making sure the rest of the pride got through safely
Photographed by Londolozi guest – Colin Toomer
Written by Kate Neill
Well done and thank you for sharing! Reminiscent of another group of Tsalala cubs that crossed the river…beautiful pics! So happy to see that pride thriving!!!
Awesome, thank you for sharing.
THank you so much for sharing this .It is so lovely to see the little ones.Just hope they remain safe
Nice to see that you benefitted from the photography lessons!!