You will all be familiar with the Big 5 (leopard, lion, buffalo, rhino and elephant). To see all five in a day is quite an achievement for any avid safari-goer and having been lucky enough to have seen this more than once it was time to raise the bar. How about the challenge of seeing five different cats in one day? Impossible you might say, but not so if you have the eagle eyes of Daniel and John along side. Myself, John and Andy Loveland were lucky enough to manage this feat on not one but two separate days.

I can count on one hand the number of caracal sightings I've had over the years, yet we found ourselves in the situation where we could drive five minutes out of camp and find two as if on demand. A mother and cub had taken up residence in a nearby thicket and as if that were not enough, we also had the luxury of spending an hour or so with a very accommodating serval cat in the morning sunshine. With those more unusual ones in the bag the icing on the cake was to see cheetah, leopard and lion. At one point we were able to watch cheetah on one side of the car and caracal on the other! 

I call that a better than average day out! 

My best salaams to you all, 

Rob