It is not every day that you get to have the opportunity to see one of Africa's endangered species up close and personal. Amakhosi's pride and privilege lies with these four cheetah boys; they have been spoiling us rotten with sightings like in the video clip above.
It was on a morning game drive this past week that we headed out with one goal, to find some rhino. As we putt-putted through the reserve with the smell of diesel hanging, that can only smell inviting in the African bush, we had luck with an anticipated rhino sighting.
A mom and a very very young little calf! It was a classic case of coming around a corner, with no wild expectations, and bam, some prehistoric creature, in the road! The cow and the calf bolted through the thickets ahead and disappeared in the cloud of dust they had kicked up!
So we carried on in the hope of picking the rhino up again further down the road. Not even 600 meters on, down the same road, I noticed a rock lying in the middle of the road, that could pass as a dinosaur egg for those who have an over active imagination!
With great intrigue, my eyes fixed on the rock that we were slowly approaching, I hardly even noticed the spotted cat that was leisurely stretched out right next to the rock...
And the penny drops...it's cheetah!
It's always thrilling when you spot these very delicate felines in the wild, in their prime, and four of them together!
Yes, we had located the coalition of four males (or boys as I like to call them)! They lay stretched out behind a fallen tree stump, in an open clearing. Just waiting to be the stars of the morning! Any keen wildlife photographer would have been enthralled by this opportunity.
We spent the rest of the morning with Amakhosi's four boys, and relished the moment that had been presented to us!
Life in the African bush and here at Amakhosi, never ceases to amaze!
