15th of August 2009

17/08/2009 03:17:05 PM

A very very cold morning turned into a very successful game drive on this day. My Italian couple has been doing game drives in the Kruger for their first two weeks and of all the drives they had they only managed to see all four of the big five, except lions. Deciding to come down to Addo for their last night was to an extreme last resort to find lions as they were going to finish their holiday in Cape town via the Garden route.

 

My only chance to look for these big cats was on their last drive, which by good faith, I managed to find a pride of six lions right next to the road! 

 

The general public driving in their cars in the Addo main section don’t have a very good vision of game as they are sitting in very low cars but luckily for us, being in a game vehicle meant having a good view of these lions walking towards us about 250 m from the vehicles. We had good visual of these lions as they walked towards us and we were busy taking pictures in this process when suddenly they all came to a halt and sat down. We decided to go to the next viewing point to have to coffee-break while we wait for the lions to come closer and as we sipped our last sips, we herd more roaring coming from the same area. We packed our coffee cups and drove back where we had a good sighting of three cubs, one big male and a juvenile male.

 

So that was my last game drive with the Italian couple  who were seriously looking for the lions on their last game drive of their visit to Africa after frantic efforts looking for them in Kruger Park. What a lucky day and a happy ending for this couple!