Officially Amazing!

Sorry that I haven't done a blog post for a while, but so much has been happening.
For two nights, I went to the African Spirit Game Lodge, and I've seen loads of amazing things.
Here's what happened when I went there.
Within 5 minutes of arriving, we came across a mother cheetah with her cubs, which was amazing. But what was even more amazing, was that the mother had just chased and cornered an injured nyala, and was about to have it for her dinner. Here's a photo.                                                                                                    

Cheetah

The next day, we woke up really early, so that we could go on our game drive. We left the lodge at 6:30. Although the weather was sunny, it felt quite cold as we rode along in the open top game vehicle, because it is actually the middle of winter in South Africa.

The game drive

We saw 20 giraffes, including a baby :), warthogs, impala, nyala, and even some lions!

Giraffe

Warthogs

female lion

young male lion

We stopped in the middle of the bush and had a drink and some biscuits. I found some animal poo. Can you guess which animal it comes from?

Can you guess which animal made this poo?

We went on another game drive in the afternoon, where we saw rhinoceros and elephants, plus lots more giraffe, warthogs and buck. We tried to drive back along a dried up river bed, but got stuck behind the herd of elephants. They went really slowly and would not hurry up. It got dark and it became quite freaky, because you would never know if something would leap at you from behind, like a leopard, or a pack of lions.

white rhinos

mother  (left) one week old baby (center) teenager (right)

It was when we were driving back to the lodge in the dark, when Mum spotted the caracal.

Our ranger said that they can jump as high as a tree, and they catch birds out of the air.

I found it really beautiful and awesome.

caracal