13th Borehole

[Mel]

The closest camp is

Urikaruus (8 km)


Other camps:

Kalahari Tented Camp (37 km)
Mata-Mata (40 km)

[Mel]

Peter Derichs - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park:

Originally known as "Grootskrij": groot = big, krij = diarrhoea.

Apparently Jackson, the surveyor, camped here and his oxen ate tsamma melon and drank the water,
resulting in the original name.

[Mel]

2 pics of the waterhole. It's very close to the road but if there's (cat) action,
it might get cramped as there is not much leeway like with other waterholes
in the area (e.g. 14th, Dalkeith, Craig Lockhardt - all further north)

03/2010

03/2013

For me the waterhole hasn't produced such a great cheetah sighting as yours, pooky and nan,
let alone a caracal sighting ( ) but it's always good for birds.

[Toko]

Peter Derichs - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park:

Originally known as "Grootskrij": groot = big, krij = diarrhoea.

Apparently Jackson, the surveyor, camped here and his oxen ate tsamma melon and drank the water,
resulting in the original name.

It's the thirteenth borehole created for the Union troops in 1908. Perhaps the place was known as Grootskrij before the waterhole was sunk

[nan]

right, it's one of the best place for little birds... like Waxbill

[nan]

March 2013
Gabar Gohawk/Autour gabar


allowed me to turn around... to have a front picture ... only few seconds

[nan]

Black-faced Waxbill/ Astrid à moustaches

[nan]

even Lion... in the shade

[nan]

Yellow Canary male and female
Cape Sparrow

[nan]

African Red-eyed Bulbul/Bulbul brunoir