If anyone is interested, here is my trip report from South Africa last year. We had a rubbish guide, but despit that we still saw quite a few lifers including a veery brief glimpse of a Riverine Rabbit, aardwolf, amazing aardvark sightings, Black-footed Cat, meerkats, Springhare, Smith’s red rock rabbit, round eared sengi, Gemsbok, plus the kgalagadi produced lions, leopards and cheetahs
South Africa Rare Mammals trip report
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Great trip report!!
Too bad that you had such a bad guide, but it seems that you did well anyway, and great pictures!
I need to make it back out there and try for Caracal, which seems to not be as easy to find in the cape as it once was? Maybe I’m wrong though 🙂
Cheers!
Tomer
Thanks Jo – some fabulous pictures there. Do you have a list of all the species you saw (preferably with a location attached). I find the Safaritalk forum quite hard to refer to as it is split over so many pages so takes quite a bit of time to navigate through. It would be great to include here a list of what you saw and where, which people like me can then use to cross reference with the full post, cheers
Hi not as such but I do have this Google doc which is just the narrative without pictures:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GlfW3zxFAjVhKozKq5itlCVP5kVUfz0F_u5qHq0CRlE/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=112478341694793271326
And individual photo sets on flickr:
Kgalagadi : https://flic.kr/s/aHsm6c98m2
Augrabies : https://flic.kr/s/aHsm66vida
Kalahari trails: https://www.flickr.com/gp/kittykat23uk/x6H8MA
Marrick and Mokala : https://flic.kr/s/aHsm64hVCH
Riverine Rabbit Retreat : https://www.flickr.com/gp/kittykat23uk/w7d629
Karoo NP: https://www.flickr.com/gp/kittykat23uk/S98o37
De Hoop: https://flic.kr/s/aHsm9zUnUb
Boulders: https://www.flickr.com/gp/kittykat23uk/tZdjjN
Cape point: https://flic.kr/s/aHsm62vAxV
Kirstenbosch : https://flic.kr/s/aHsm7gvReu
Gansbaai : https://flic.kr/s/aHsm7tTYt2
West coast NP : https://flic.kr/s/aHsm9wSqjU
Thanks – I will add the google doc to the site with a link to the full report too.