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Thanks for the update, Moose!

Seeing that Lisette is left with only 3 of her 4 cubs -
do you happen to know when and why / how she lost the 4th one?

One of the pictures I managed to capture of Lisette and her three daughters on their kill at Houmoed on Saterday's sunset drive:


TIMG_6968 - Cheetahs on a Kill by Miros Photography, on Flickr



I've asked a few people, but nobody that I've spoken to knows the fate of the 4th cub. I saw it when I was visiting with my parents over Xmas, so it was around at least a couple months ago, but I'm unsure of exactly when the last sighting of it was.

I'm almost sure I saw Lisette in January with her four cubs, with a kill, under a tree....

what...............

Thanks, Miro for the update.

Pascalinah saw Lisette also with only 3 cubs between the 14th and the 27th Feb.
So it must have happened somewhen between your sighting of Lisette, anne-marie, and hers.

I had both a sunset drive and a night drive last night...

Sunset Drive:

The first event of the day was me being horribly pooped on by a millipede.

We found out we had just missed four cheetahs and a spotted hyena by minutes. But we stayed around as it was the guests first time in the park and we were watching the Springbok and the Wildebeest. Then we saw something was watching them- Leopard! It was a little far off, but easily identifiable through binoculars and we watched with excitement seeing whether it would try to catch anything. Sadly it missed its chance with some young wildebeest and a crying jackal eventually gave it away as it got dark.

We went on to see more jackals, springhare, scrubhare, African Wildcat and Spotted Eagle Owls.


I took out a Night Drive as soon as we got back to camp from the sunset drive:


Began with a Verreaux’s Eagle Owl in Camp.

It had gone all quiet, but while we were watching a Black Back Jackal, a huge Spotted Hyena tore across the road just feet in front of us!

We saw several African Wild Cats, Spotted Eagle Owls, Springhares, Scrubhares, Cape Foxes, and some Bat Eared Foxes at a distance.

When we were nearly back at Twee Rivieren Gate (a little late...) I caught two pairs of eyes in the road up ahead. I first thought Porcupine, as they seemed quite large and dark and there were two of them. As we got a little closer... BROWN HYENA! So rare and special to see one, let alone a pair. Never seen two together before. And two of our guests had come on the drive solely to try and find a brown hyena. The hyenas were actually fairly relaxed and continued down the road to Samevloeing. I turned around and followed them for a while, but didn’t want to end up chasing them. So we stopped where we’d seen them pasting some grass and tried to find their pastings.

Probably my best night in KTP

Fantastic Moose Thanks fo keeping us all updated

Thank you for the Update Moose. Nice sightings you had.

Stunning!!!!!.................I'm

wow... indeed what a night

Great sightings

Morning all,

Just returned from a lovely cool morning walk.....clearly the seasons are changing.

This morning I went out with only two guests (lovely people), after the Pre-briefing was done and we started walking we got very fresh Cheetah tracks, so obviously we decided to follow and see if we could catch up with it.
After about an hour we still couldn’t catch up and we went to our look-out rest area. While sitting there I saw a strange glare coming from one of the opposite dunes about 1km away, but just couldn’t make out what it was. Although we could see somebody walking on a dune. Now the only person who it could have been was Dr. Gus mills. Luckily I had cell phone reception so I decided to give him a call to make sure that it was him and not somebody else walking around.

My suspicion confirmed, Dr Mills told me that he was looking for one of his cheetah in the area, I told him about the fresh tracks and clearly the cheetah was somewhere between where they were standing and where we were, but none of us could see or find her

Dr Mills came over to us and discussed his project with the guests who loved every moment of it, having a 'lecture' in the dunes from an expert.

Other than that the walk was pretty un-event full but the guests loved it.

wow magnificent walk... with encounter with Dr. Mills

What a pleasure -- to have a field lecture by Gus Mills Cheetah was obviously hiding

Definitely "what a pleasure"