leopard • 16 comments • Whenever we approached a stopped a vehicle during our little self-drive safari at Kruger National Park, we began to search for what the people inside might be looking at. There were a lot of false alarms (people fumbling with maps), but every now and then we were able to see an animal that we may not have spotted on our own.On our first day in the park, we drove by two vehicles sitting at the side of the road and couldn't tell what they we looking at. We noticed one of the drivers point at a tree and immediately noticed an animal sitting in it. The viewfinder of the camera confirmed it; we had our first (and, unfortunately, only) leopard sighting.It was amazing to see how camouflaged it was in the shade of the tree. For the rest of our time in Kruger the leopards eluded us, so we're glad to have seen at least one.After about ten minutes, the leopard hopped out of the tree and disappeared into the long grass.
