While crossing the Sand River late in the morning, a large giraffe had come down to quench it’s thirst.

While in the company of two legendary female leopards, the Ndzanzeni Female and Mashaba Female, the Nweti Male takes a moment to groom himself.

The Tsalala Female and the Larger of the two Plains Camp Males have been hanging around together for quite some time since she returned to Londolozi. Here they spot a herd of wildebeest in the distance while upon the scenic Ximpalapala crest.

Both the Nkoveni Young Male and his mother were comatose on the boughs of a large jackalberry tree, presenting a few different photographic opportunities highlighting just how comfortable and at home they are in trees.

The Nkoveni Female makes sleeping on a tree branch look easy and awfully comfortable, however, I can’t imagine I would be able to do the same.

Dan and his guests enjoy a fantastic sighting of a herd of elephants crossing through the Sand River.

I found this image rather captivating as the Ntsevu Breakaway Female curled her lip up with a snout covered in blood.

Engaged in a gentle bout of necking these two male giraffe were probably just practicing their skills at fighting. The one behind facing to the right was slightly smaller and so it would be unlikely that the fight would escalate into anything serious.

The Nkoveni Young Male glances up in frustration as a squirrel alarm calls at him from the tree above.

Voracious little predators, Pearl-spotted Owlets will target anything they can overpower. Probably one of the more active owls during the day, this particular owlet was on the hunt which we could tell by the excitable twitching of the tail as it perched on this branch looking around for food.

The Nhlanguleni Female has been a fairly difficult leopard to find of late. She sustained an injury to one of her back legs a couple months ago and since then she has found life rather challenging. However, the injury appears to be recovering and so hopefully we see her thriving once again.

She does, however, have Ssuch a regal and attention grabbing presence.

Fish Eagles are pretty much always associated with water, understandably with the majority of their diet consisting of fish. However, they only spend about 1% of their time actually fishing. So this one had most likely come down for a drink.

After a thrilling morning with the Ngungwe Female (stay tuned for more on this next weekend), she settles down on a boulder close to Marthly Pools.

The Kambula Pride find solace in the shade of a dense combretum thicket and settle down for the day.

Finfoot Crossing, definitely feels like the place to be in the middle of the day. A small group of waterbuck feed on the lush vegetation growing on the bank in the middle of the river.

The first sighting I had of the Ximungwe Female’s adorable little cub.

The perfect sunset spot, Plaque Rock. While here one evening moody clouds rolling in on the horizon, we were hoping that they might bring us some rain.

Peering over Ranger Shaun D’Araujo’s shoulder at a cheetah resting on a mound.

Just by chance, while I had stopped to have a look at the baby wildebeest, I glanced down at the ground and there out in the open was this nightjar. Often quite difficult to identify by just looking at them (we tend to rely on their calls at night for accurate identification) this one looks to be a Square-tailed Nightjar. Correct me if I am wrong, please?

Licking her lips, with the Nweti Male just beyond the Ndzanzeni Female, she is still looking incredible.

My first impression when looking at this newborn wildebeest calf was that something was wrong with its eyes, only upon reviewing the image on the larger screen did I realise it was just the little guy’s extensive eyebrows.

Stumbling across this old buffalo bull, we were happy to find this Yellow-billed Oxpecker hopping around on his back. Yellow-billed Oxpeckers are less common than their Red-billed cousins and are normally found on buffalo in larger herds. So this was great.

A handsome male lion. The Styx Male has been throwing his weight around for a young gun. Although it is unlikely that he will be tolerated around here for much longer, he is an incredible lion to look at, and photograph.

A wild dog moves across to a better, shadier spot to rest with Reece and his guests watching from a distance.

Sitting tall and resting in the shade on a warm morning, the Tsalala Female truly is a stunning lioness.

With a storm rolling around at sunset, we chose to stop and watch it’s development and eventually dissipation. It was quite a sight watching the clouds build and then the rainfall in the distance and the clouds just disappear.

Moving through the territory of the Ndzhenga Males and the Kambula Pride, this Ntsevu Breakaway Female was treading on treacherous ground.

A herd of buffalo take their time to cool off and have a drink late one afternoon.

The Styx male is often found in the company of the Ntsevu Breakaway Female, the two of them had brought down a buffalo cow and its tiny newborn calf on this particular morning and were resting after a period of feeding.