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Ben Cranke Wildlife Photographer with Tusk Photo at Elephant Plains Game Lodge:
(Mhangeni Pride)
October 7th, 2017
Well, today was our last full day on this safari at the Sabi Sand Reserve, and we all were really hoping for a great day. And is was! Even though the day was heavily overcast, raint at times, and very dull.
We started this morning with a pride of lions ... the same pride with seventeen members that we saw yesterday. They were lying sprawled out on the airstrip, where we had to use our flashes because of the poor light. When they moved into the bush on the side of the airstrip we nipped around and placed ourselves in a position to watch the lions as they walked towards us. When they walked up to and then filed right past us we had the opportunity for some close walk-by shots.
We drove around for a while and stopped for a coffee break, where hornbills flew back and forth around us.
It rained for much of the day but not long before it was time to set out for our afternoon game drive the rain stopped, the heavens cleared and the light improved dramatically.
We searched for the lions but they had disappeared.
Photo of a MHANGENI PRIDE young male by Ben Cranke Wildlife Photographer.