On our afternoon game drive, the radio informed our guide of two separate leopard sightings. One was a mother and 2 cubs in the reeds, shy, difficult to spot even when we were right there in the morning,a nd a lone leopard cub not so far away, so we opted to go for the latter. We found her snoozing in the tall grass, so just parked our vehicle and waited, and waited, and waited some more. The sun went down lower and lower and threw off glorious red and yellow rays, but our girl was still sleeping. We were committed. There was no time left to go back to the first leopard sighting.
Eventually, after the sun had set, the leopard cub woke up from her sleep and began to explore her surroundings. She went up a high rock cliff to stalk the klifspringers, but they spotted her and sounded alarm. So she eventually aborted the hunt and came down to this eye level rock, clear of grass and proceeded to clean herself. Our patience to stick with her paid off!
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I had a 1.4X on and was desperately swapped it out for this shot!
One of my favorites. Hope you like it.
Thank you for commenting on my previous images.
Loi







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