Winter has arrived and the weather has begun changing, sometimes quite drastically. We experienced strong east winds, especially during the afternoons. Generally speaking, temperatures ranged from a cool six degrees Celsius to a comfy 22 degrees Celsius. On a few mornings we noticed a cloak of mist drifting in over the landscape.

The landscape is very dry and is dominated by the impressive Damara euphorbia. The areas surrounding the natural springs are still quite lush with vegetation, especially mopane trees which grow along the seep lines - attracting lots of wildlife.

June has been an exciting month in terms of wildlife sightings as general game sightings have been abundant. Huge mixed congregations of zebra, springbok, oryx and kudu were seen dotted along the vast landscape. Moving away from the grassy plains and towards the rocky slopes, we had a number of fantastic klipspringer and rock hyrax sightings too.

The highlights for the month were the rhino sightings. A new black rhino bull has moved into the area and we have managed to track him and document some material which will help with easily identifying this individual in the future. The rhino research went really well this month, and we were able to share the rhino experience with all of our guests.

Two elephant bulls also made the camp surroundings their temporary residence resulting in a few "wow" moments.

Predator sightings have also caused much excitement and joy with our guests and guides. A pride of eight lionmade the Khoabes Spring their temporary home and hunting grounds, owing to the prolific prey numbers around. This pride provided some great photographic opportunities as they were quite relaxed in our presence. 

A very skittish caracal also made a brief appearance before disappearing into some bushes. The afternoon drives produced many wonderful bat-eared fox sightings as well as a single brilliant aardwolf sighting. We also had a number of fantastic cheetah sightings too.

The birdlife has been pretty amazing, especially the raptor sightings, as most raptors are starting to nest now. We had some excellent views of a variety of vulture species as they were often seen perching on dead trees, waiting for the thermals to aid them in flight.

We had some great sightings of the following birds: lanner falcon, gabar goshawk, black stork and brown snake-eagle. All in all it was a great birding month.