{"id":4745,"date":"2020-11-18T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=4745"},"modified":"2020-12-18T13:37:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T11:37:16","slug":"leopard-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=4745","title":{"rendered":"Leopard Sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The roadblock was&#8230; a leopard. There are plenty leopard in the park but it&#8217;s hard work to see them, sometimes. Other times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=3070\">they pitch all on their own and give you a show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201118-063256-1300-T-IMG_1122r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4750\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201118-063256-1300-T-IMG_1122r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one was parked off on the other side of the bank, not bothered by people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201118-063508-1300-T-IMG_1127r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4751\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201118-063508-1300-T-IMG_1127r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s the best picture we got.<\/p>\n<p>But undoubtedly a leopard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201118-074801-100-W-IMG_0722r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4752\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201118-074801-100-W-IMG_0722r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because later, this is what we saw. And if what you&#8217;re seeing can be explained by someone leaving a pillow up a tree, you can&#8217;t really claim to have seen a leopard.<\/p>\n<p>Later the same day we saw the Lubyelubye leopard parked off under a rock on the far side of the river. That&#8217;s why we have a 600mm lens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201118-162420-1300-T-IMG_1242r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4753\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201118-162420-1300-T-IMG_1242r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>16:24<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201118-162714-1300-T-IMG_1245r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4754\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201118-162714-1300-T-IMG_1245r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>16:27<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201118-164354-1300-T-IMG_1246r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4755\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201118-164354-1300-T-IMG_1246r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>16:43<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201118-164414-1100-T-IMG_9415r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4756\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201118-164414-1100-T-IMG_9415r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201118-180036-1300-T-IMG_1271c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4757\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201118-180036-1300-T-IMG_1271c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much later the same day..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201118-180820-1300-T-IMG_1281c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4758\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201118-180820-1300-T-IMG_1281c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that was pretty much how much leopard we saw this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The roadblock was&#8230; a leopard. There are plenty leopard in the park but it&#8217;s hard work to see them, sometimes. Other times they pitch all on their own and give you a show. This one was parked off on the other side of the bank, not bothered by people. And that&#8217;s the best picture we got. But undoubtedly a leopard. Because later, this is what we saw. And if what you&#8217;re seeing can be explained by someone leaving a pillow up a tree, you can&#8217;t really claim to have seen a leopard. Later the same day we saw the Lubyelubye&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kruger-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4799,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions\/4799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}