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It was the last hour of our morning game drive. We decided to stop for a hot chocolate on one of the open areas at Kirkman’s Kamp. Japhott, our tracker, spotted a pride of lions from far away. We stopped in a distance since those lions had been skittish around the vehicle the day before. Through our binoculars we could make out that the pride, consisting...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Stephanie Mast, Date: 24 May 2008
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 The winter at Kirkman’s Kamp is on its way. The nights become longer, the days shorter, the mornings colder, the grass drier and the buffalos more. This morning we watched a herd of about 300 Buffalos at one of the open areas and another one of at least 200 was found on its way to the sand river to drink some water. In winter time the buffalos generally...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Stephanie Mast, Date: 24 May 2008
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 What an evening, we just watched over a hundred elephants bathing in the sand river. As we went around to the road, young and old crossed right in front of us playing with each other. Then we carried on and stopped at the oldest tree around Kirkman’s Kamp. A sycamore fig tree (ficus sycomorus), estimated to be about 650 years old. We had a look at the...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Stephanie Mast, Date: 14 April 2008
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A group of four Wild Dogs have been seen this morning on the Kirkman’s Property. First we thought they would be on a hunt, moving towards a group of Impala. As we noticed the Alpha male had a chunk of meat missing on his chest. We all presume it might have been from one of his prey species kicking him or from a fight with another predator. With an injured...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Stephanie Mast, Date: 8 April 2008
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 Lions back!!!! This morning we found four females and one male lion after a struggle to find lions at all in the last days. We watched them for a while, the male with full belly, just sleeping. We were about to leave as suddenly the oldest female got up and circled around the young male. He wasn’t very interested first, but eventually he gave up his...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Stephanie Mast, Date: 4 April 2008
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 Again, we tried to find a pack of wild dogs that was running earlier on the main road. We tracked them towards a very thick area and eventually lost all sign of the predators. We guessed they would be hunting in the area. We got confirmed a bit later as we found four wild dogs lying in the shade with full bellies, resting. The dogs were digging themselves...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Stephanie Mast, Date: 30 March 2008
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A pack of four wild dogs came to visit the Kirkman’s Kamp property late in the morning and settled down in a thicket during the heat of the day. We decided to try and find them again in the afternoon. We found the dogs running along one of the main roads south. Suddenly the pack stopped, sniffed around and turned in the opposite direction. Sniffing,...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Stephanie Mast, Date: 28 March 2008
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Two days ago the Kirkman’s Ranger Team found a dead buffalo bull on the edge of the sand river in the reeds. The next day a male lion got the smell of the carcass and started eating. But he wasn’t the only one showing interest in the smelly food. The drive after we located a male leopard just a couple of hundred meters away on the northern bank of the...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Stephanie Mast, Date: 19 March 2008
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Two Leopards were mating along the Sand River. What a sighting. The male leopard was the same male some of us know from the battle of Kirkman’s. He had some unforgettable experiences a few months ago. The leopard got attacked by four lionesses as he tried to eat of their kill (see sighting of Malcom Bowling) and also fought two other male leopards and...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Stephanie Mast, Date: 28 February 2008
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 Early morning at Kirkman’s Kamp. We found a crash of 6 white Rhino trying to catch the first morning sun in an open spot between Marula Trees. As we approached one female with an about 2 year old calf started snorting. Luckily not at us. She roared at a big bull that came closer. Over the sudden the situation went out of control. The old female started to...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Stephanie Mast, Date: 21 February 2008
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