@goflow42 nearly stepped on this beautiful lady just outside the Geelbek restaurant in West Coast National Park as we were walking towards one of the bird hides. This is only the second time @withoutaleaf and I have seen one of these beautiful cats in the wild - they can be spotted anywhere between here and Iran. Caracals are expert bird-ambushers. They can leap to extraordinary heights to pull down birds trying to escape by flight. This one was only slightly bigger than a house cat, but full grown males are considerably larger.
The cliché goes that the best camera is the one you have with you. For a Caracal sighting it would have been great to have a telephoto lens on a quick autofocusing camera. I had my 50mm manual focus lens on my Fuji Xe1. Managed to get about two sharp pics and then cropped the heck out of this.