but the young one persisted again till told off...





The only good pic of all four out together. The young male was trying to play and it was all good till he tried to mount that big old cat and he got put well in his place.... It all happened too quick for me to catch well though.





The clouds kept rolling across moving the exposure goal posts on me, but I persisted. Not always with great results, but it was worth trying.

All told they were hanging around (visible) for close to four hours !! While not relaxing too much, once they had moved downstream and fallen into "family mode" it was less tense than the first hour or so...!!

Once they were out of sight we went for a walk down the riverbed... yes, for someone not use to land based predators hanging around this did make the hair stand up on the back of my neck a bit as you truly KNOW they are not THAT far away.

The heads under wire getting "fish stripped" ...



Some tracks (taken down were the two cats were out in the middle of the riverbed)..





Looking back up toward camp...



and across from where they were in the morning...