Tag Archive: wildlife

Pride Rock

Thanda’s Lions have their own pride rock 🙂 In the late afternoon two Thanda North Pride youngsters were overlooking the northern part of Thanda with the Lebombo Mountains in the background. We often stop at… Continue reading →

Rare Sightings!

Sorry for not blogging for a few days. I was very busy guiding and teaching photography. Now I am off work for seven days 🙂 So, I thought I share a few recent… Continue reading →

Big Five in One Drive !

What a day – During today’s evening game drive we saw all the Big Five – Lion, Leopard, Elephant, Rhino and Buffalo. The Thanda guests were delighted – and so was I 🙂

ET?

It might look like something from a science fiction movie, but is a small insect, a Praying Mantis. This specimen took a ride on my vehicle for over 20 minutes. The Thanda guests enjoyed taking… Continue reading →

Convinced!

I am convinced! With all the input from many snake experts around the world I have changed the story 🙂 “When we were on the way to pick up our Thanda guests for… Continue reading →

A Funny One :-)

As I shot over 200 images of the two Mambas I took four shot of this Locust quietly crossing the road while the two fast and venous predators were engaged in their “mating… Continue reading →

“Fighting” Mambas

I am convinced! With all the input for many snake experts around the world I have changed the story 🙂 : “When we were on the way to pick up our Thanda guests… Continue reading →

Mum

This is a picture I took yesterday of the mum of our new Cheetah cubs. She was away from the cubs feeding on a kill when I was able to get this image.

Success!

Great news for Cheetah conservation. A Cheetah female on Thanda Private Game Reserve gave birth to four cubs. Yesterday we managed to get pictures of the five weeks old cubs for the first… Continue reading →

Get a meal!

Imagine you are a Cheetah male! You have not a had a meal for a while and you and your brother are getting hungry … … you stalk some newly arrived Impala. It… Continue reading →