Today I felt inspired to share a few images from my last morning game drive before heading home from safari last May. It was a rather epic morning, featuring elephants, leopards and this pair of lions (basically an entire safari’s worth of sightings in one morning). After listening to lion calls whilst having our morning coffee and rusk stop, we found this pair a short distance away. They would walk together for a short distance along the road, stop and survey the area or lay down for a few minutes, and then carry on.
I hope you enjoy my selections; wishing you a wonderful week ahead.
Pausing and listening before moving on. There were lots of lion calls in the distance; lots of drama in the bush that day.An impressive guy, one of the Matshipiri male lions.A bit of lion flirting.We drove down the road from the lions a short distance so we could get photos of the pair walking towards us along the road. Obviously they didn’t get the memo as to what was anticipated 🙂Our ranger parked alongside a termite mound to give the pair space as they came closer along the road. They stopped to one side and looked as if they were going to mate (pictured here). She suddenly changed her mind, crossed the road and climbed to the top of the termite mound we were parked alongside, and they proceeded to mate there instead. When that happened, the pair was inches from the hood of our vehicle.
