Our last day - we are all sad to leave but know we will be back. The final task was to collect the camera traps and view them over a coffee at the pub at the entrance to the camp before heading off to Johannesburg. Sadly no leopards but good photos of zebra and an Impala running on Kim and Ionna's and oryx, baboons and a mellors mongoose and young plus lots of jeeps on ours! The trip back to the airport was punctuated with stops, first for fuel, then in Dullstr...

The bed we got into in the early hours of this morning was freezing although we warmed it and ourselves up relatively quickly I awoke at 0530am with cold feet and had to put on my socks - feet warm I slept on until 0830am. John ventured onto the cool verandah and collected the flask of hot water that had been left there at 6.30 am ish and made us a two mugs of hot tea each - a much needed wakeup before venturing for a hot shower. Brunch was just after 10 - the m...

We were up before the wake up call doing last minute packing before our final game drive at Waterbuck. I also got a small bag ready for a quick swim pre breakfast and before leaving. After coffee we set off hoping for another leopard sighting as the guides knew where she was albeit she was in deep difficult bush. The elephants had just passed through the area above our camp leaving a tree across the road in their wake. We found them and watched them for a while...

A clear starlight night meant it was a cool morning with a heavy dew but it warmed quickly to give us a really nice day. Dillon took us and Maureen, a regular lodge guest, on an easy walk in the valley. Ionna is like most teenagers allergic to walking but this was a good pace and she did well. The highlight was a baby leopard tortoise. We also saw rock hyrax on the drive down, cape batis, bush buck, impala, the kite spider and fresh leopard prints on the road. We...

The reason I chose this On Track Safaris trip was because they had set it out so the experience builds and you get an understanding of the smaller animals, track signs and the bush environment before venturing into big 5 country and hopefully experiencing the larger animals. After early coffee we made our way, on the safari truck, with other guests to a crossroads of tracks - called the morning newspaper, to see what animals had passed through overnight - kudu a...