A Trip to South Africa - Part 6 Amakhala The Last Bit

So onto the last bit of Amakhala. The last 4 game drives proved interesting with more Elephant, Giraffe, Rhino, Antelope, Wildebeest and another Cheetah sighting. We did add a Cape Cobra which was quite exciting:

During one of the drives we left our trust Land Rover and boarded a boat for a short run on the river, this resulted in some great additions to our bird list:
Masked Weaver:

 African Darter:

 Black-crowned Night Heron:

 Malachite Kingfisher:

 Black Duck:

As well as a few Green Wood-hoopoe, sadly no photo of these, they just wouldn't come close enough! But late on this African Hoopoe did:

Another bird seen quite often was the Rufous-naped Lark, again it proved difficult to photograph, as as you might imaging, creeping up on a bird in a 2 ton Land Rover isn't easy, but I did get one in the end,
Rufous-naped Lark:

I mentioned that we saw plenty of Rhino and I had decided not to repeat photos but this baby surely deserves a place on the blog:

There were quite a few birds seen regularly, but as I said seeing and photographing wasn't always easy, so here's another fairly common bird that I finally manged to get on camera:
Fork-tailed Drongo:

We had one more Lion encounter,this time a Lion and Lioness, but we couldn't get any closer than this:

So back to birds on the reserve.

Secretary Bird:

Crowned Lapwing & Chick:

Denham's Bustard:

Pale Chanting Goshawk:

Three Banded Plover:

African Shelduck:

Secretary Bird:

Southern Tcharga:

Egyptian Goose: (They were everywhere!!)

Cape Turtle Dove:

Finally there was an animal that I had hoped we might see, but never thought we would as they are particularly difficult to find during the day:

Leopard:

So that concludes our time a Amakhala, we now headed back along the Garden Route and looked forward to a 3 night stay in Knysna.