‘Yes, but it was only a glimpse,’ said Jessie of her first-ever sighting of a leopard, a female walking in the grass about 30m off a dirt road south of Satara in the Kruger National Park, on the way in from Orpen Gate. No matter what our guide Bennett of Sable Safaris and I said, she teased us with ‘Yes, but it was only a glimpse.’ You’ve waited ten years for that sighting JessJess. ‘Yes, but it was only a glimpse.’ Lots of people never see a leopard Jessica. ‘Yes, but it was only a glimpse.’
We saw other stuff:
We watched a gang of ground hornbills kill and eat a tortoise; We also saw waterbuck, kudu, steenbuck, scrub hare, buffalo, bewildered wildebeest, impala, warthog, zebra, dwarf mongoose, slender mongoose, hippo, crocs, nyala.
And all the while we were tortured with ‘Yes, but it was only a glimpse.’
So thank goodness we came across this male leopard who posed obligingly in the late afternoon for a very thrilled Jess to get a long look.
So Jess settled for two leopards in one day as her first-ever sighting(s)! Peace and quiet at last.
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The day before, in Manyeleti Game Reserve:
Waiting patiently for their Moms to return. Hopefully with some ribeye or sirloin.
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As an old mate used to say, “A touch is a move” … Great sightings / spottings / glimpses there and I am envious on all counts.