Herding cats is difficult, but finding them can be even harder, especially when they are five-week-old serval kittens weighing less than a kilo.
Quartering, trawling, and scanning endless oat grass plains and croton bushes: panning for spotted gold is a Herculean task and fruitlessly occupied many ‘man’ hours.. … enter one Lydia Seela, Mara’s camp’s extraordinary silver guide.
Whilst others pondered an early breakfast she picked these two tiny faces from a sea of fecund green. Not only that, these infants were seemingly not shy, turning a small fertile thicket into a feline leisure centre.
A remarkable sight. A remarkable guide.


