From a much drier and dustier Ndlopfu we send you news of
Some of the activities and happenings on the farm.
LION.
Lion sightings have been fairly rare in the last few months. We had nine lion kill a Gnu at the club house dam one night and when we woke in the morning they could be seen walking around at the club house, one of them carrying the Gnus head in its mouth.These lion then moved of towards Cass.
The Groblers were up not too long ago and they saw lions in their car park but were unable to make out details, as it was at night.
One lioness with cubs was seen at Peru dam. These lions were on the other side of the dam, so it was a bit to far for us to have a good look at them.
The Yankee pride has been around a few times and the other night walked around in the car park then across the lawn and onto the club house dam before moving off into the Klaserie.
LEOPARD.
The Leopard have been rather rewarding of late. A large tom was seen at the entrance of the car park, as well as a tom seen near hide dam.
Tracks were seen in the turning circle of unit 46.
The Clubhouse female killed a baboon in the monkey thorn tree
Just outside the managers house on the front lawn. She came back 3 nights in a row and provided some spectacular viewing for
Some of us.
Last weekend Bruce Jenkins (Unit 20) was on a drive and came across an ailing Impala, and on closer investigation found a female leopard, who the dragged her prey into the bush. Later that day the female leopard was found with her cub feeding on the impala and provided some real excitement for those of us fortunate to see it.

ELEPHANT.
As many of you will have noticed, the farm is full of elephants.
The pool of water near unit 46 has had elephants there almost every day as well as wind mill dam. There is one breeding herd of aprox 30 animals that is spending most of its time on the farm.
There are also many small herds of aprox 4- 5 bulls walking the river.
Some of the shareholders have had real close encounters with some of these, and have even had to wait to be able to get into their units.

WILD DOG.
A pack of 14 dogs was seen on Peru, so there is slight chance of a sighting on Ndlopfu.
Eric spotted 3 wild dog at the Marula tree near the entrance and they headed in the direction of the Cass property, with no further sighting.

RHINO.
Two Rhino were seen near Yankee dam but moved away rather fast towards Rietvlei.

UNUSUAL SIGHTINGS:
Jamie spotted a pangolin at the turn off to the workshop area at the main complex late one evening.

Phillip Fourie was fortunate to enjoy the sighting of a porcupine near Dave’s crossing.

GENERAL GAME
The sightings of the general game have improved over the last two months with the warthogs being regular visitors to the pool area, as well as numerous other lovely sightings of giraffe, waterbuck, kudu and such like.