Every season brings something new and it is always so exciting to spot your first Leopard tortoise, Flap-necked chameleon, Flame lily, Red-chested cuckoo, Wahlberg’s eagle and so on of spring. I catch myself, and my tracker Kenneth, ‘high-fiving’ each other as we spot these ‘firsts’, as our guests look on in delight.

Many of the herbivores are swollen with the promise of new life and everything seems invigorated by the new greenery and rainwater. The lion cubs mentioned in previous journals, as well as the young male leopard cub, are now of a size where it seems more appropriate to call them adolescents – especially as they seem to be preoccupied with their own adventures rather than tripping along on oversized paws close to their mother’s sides.