Load shedding & Lions

For the past few weeks we have been having load shedding. This is when the power company shuts off power for a few hours each day to save capacity. It can be quite frustrating when you have stuff to do but it can also have its benefits, like last Friday.

The power was going to be off from 5-7.30pm, so we decided to take the opportunity and go for a drive around the reserve. Just before then somebody had seen lions on the entrance road. They had moved on to the top of the koppie so we didn’t think they would still be around but decided as we had time to kill we might as well go and look.

When we arrived at the spot where they were seen we straight away saw two of them posing nicely on a rock and looking carefully we could see others behind the trees.

Soon after that another lion decided the rock was an interesting place to be…

Followed closely by another one, we now had four lions lying on the rock and at that moment an (anti-poaching) helicopter flew past, and they all watched it with great interest.

In total there were at least 7 of them, and by the time we left there were actually 5 on the rock but the light was too bad for pictures. These are all sub adults from the big pride we had visiting us a lot last year so we will probably still see them around Grietjie in the future.

P.S. yes, blog posts have been few and far between mea culpa