Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Day 8: Last 2 Game Drives at Inyati

Our stay at Inyati has been wonderful. It hasn't been the best food, but the variety of animals we've seen has been terrific. Here's a close-up of a White-Backed Vulture.


We went back to visit the pack of African Wild Dogs we had seen a few days ago. This time they were out on an open road. One male adult was watching all 10 pups. The other 6 adults were out hunting. These pups were running around and playing--so much energy!!


This one stopped and looked right up at the Land Cruiser.


Play, play, play.


They play so hard and then they plop down for a rest.


We then went to find the Mhangeni Pride to see how they were doing on the Cape Buffalo dinner. Most were so full they had to take a rest. These photos were taken in the dark. I moved my ISO to 3200 and was able to take them. So happy they came out.



The next morning we had an amazing sunrise.


We came across a troop of Baboons. This one was enjoying a snack.


This is something I've never seen before. When two male Nyala meet each other they raise their manes to show dominance. It was very cool to see.


Here's a Rock Monitor that was sunning itself.


To end our stay at Inyati we had an amazing sighting. A few days ago we saw this female Leopard with her cub.


On our last drive, we found her mate. He had sustained a pretty big wound on his forepaw and was doing a  lot of licking. We saw 9 different Leopards in Sabi Sands.


Here is our group with Omega, Joel, and a couple from Boston.


 I'd definitely come back to Inyati. If Giraffe was our totem animal in Thornybush, it was the Leopard in Sabi Sands.

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