· 19th July morning began with some cold weather and on the drive initially we did not see much but then we stumbled across a big black rhino which was an amazing sight we both took a lot pictures. When we came back we were told that Seth will be at lodge to take us out, soon he was there and he told us to get ready quickly as we were going out to track some radio collared leopards and see lot more of the forest we were out soon looking for a female leopard of which we did not get any signals on the radio device so we went ahead to look for some lions and soon we came across three female lions sitting on a mound in the middle of a grassland so we went off road and parked right next to them and took loads of pictures it was a wonderful sight specially because they were all up and active, it was great fun being out with Seth and Seth also gave us a lot of information about various things including the ongoing leopard project at phinda, after the lions we again went down to look for another radio collared leopard a female with two small cubs who is apparently very shy, on our way to this area we had some great sightings of giraffes and cape buffaloes. When we reached the area and Seth turned on the device the antenna started catching signals of the leopard so we went deep in the bush to look for it we kept getting closer and closer to it and it was amazingly exciting, we got as close as 20 feet to this leopard and we could even hear it moving but could not see it as it was thick bush and there was no approach to this area. Soon it was dark and we had the spotlight on Seth offered me to use the spotlight and I was happy to do so, as we started with the drive we saw a porcupine which was just crossing the road, then I spotted three different janets which looked like miniature leopards it was exciting to spot them, after this great night drive Seth dropped us back to the lodge and gave some pints of chilled beer.