Hi Everyone!!
I'm sorry about the delay, but here goes day 3...
We got up early and drove the S100 to N'wanetdsi for breakfast. Along the way we saw many general game, impala, waterbucks, kudu's, zebra's and wildebeest to name but a few. We reached the picnic site with no cat sightings, it looked like it was going to be a slow day again but we were happy to just be there and breathing in the fresh morning air of the bushveld.
There were a few people at the picnic area and we exchanged sightings for the morning, it looked like we were not alone.
After a lovely scrambled egg breakfast, we jumped back into our cars and headed towards Satara again via the tar road (sorry, I never know the road names etc
). We again saw the general game along the way. We reached a car stopped in the road and looked out to what they were looking at. At first we could not see it, but then we saw the 2 male lions lying far away in the grass.... It wasn't the greatest lion sighting, but it was indeed one of my favourite cats and we enjoyed the sighting through Binocs for about 20minutes. It didn't look like they were moving anytime soon so we headed on...
We passed a drinking hole and stopped to take a pic of a buffalo. A Singita vehicle passed us, but as we drove off he stopped and hung out his window to show us a gorgeous Puff Adder lying on the side of the road! We had completely missed him and he was so gorgeous...
The rest of the morning was much the same with plenty of general game around. We went back to camp and relaxed a bit before heading out for an afternoon drive. Everyone wanted to head out north for a while, but I wanted to see what was at the dam on the Orpen road. Our last trip this dam proved very fruitful so I wanted to check. Lucky I was driving so off we went. At the dam we would turn around.
The dam had so many game, warthogs, impalas, hippos and some big crocs! At the man made waterhole we could see a herd of ellies, we wanted to see them up close so I decided to go into the dam loop and also then turn around there. Once at the loop, we couldn't see the ellies but in the bed down below there were some impalas and a gorgeous kudu bull with his girls. We waited for him to get out of the thickets so we could take a snap when we suddenly heard a baboon call "danger". As quickly as lightning, the impala and kudu took off into the bush and we knew there was some predator in the bush.
Just then a gorgeous leopard popped out of the bush right next to the car and walked beside the car towards the dam before crossing the road and heading for a drink. We were the only cars there and the sighting was just brilliant!! He wasn't around for very long, but in leopard term it was a long time and we felt very LUCKY!!
The rest of the drive provided more general game and a magnificent African Sunset.... A great day indeed.
I will upload the pics once I am home.....
Day 4 to follow....
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I am stuck with an iPhone camera!! 
Let's hope it works, otherwise i will be 
and everyone just wants to have a catch up 
