Flavour of the Month Aug/Sep 2016 H4-2 Lower Sabie - Crocodile Bridge

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Re: Flavour of the Month Aug/Sep 2016 H4-2 Lower Sabie - Crocodile Bridge

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22h22 hours ago

10:20
Lions just killed a warthog again
H4-2, at Vurhami bridge
Near Crocodile Bridge
Vis 5/5
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Sep 12

14:50
Lions made a warthog kill
Elephant closeby
H4-2, Vurhami bridge
Near Crocodile Bridge
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Re: Flavour of the Month Aug/Sep 2016 H4-2 Lower Sabie - Crocodile Bridge

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14:20
Crocodile eating an impala
H4-2, 5km S of Lower Sabie
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09:39
Leopard in the tree on its kill
H4-2, 5.2km N of the S28 S entrance
Near Crocodile Bridge
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Crocodile Bridge Sunset Drive:
5 Cheetahs stationary, mother with 4 cubs blocked the road
Close to the H4-2
Near Crocodile Bridge
Vis 5/5, no cars
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Lions in trees again - aat 2014:

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aat wrote: Sun Jun 22, 2014 3:07 pm
We wanted to cross this little bridge but … lions in the tree. Think they watched a leopard doing this and copied it. Snoozing in a tree. The good thing about it is, you can see them better then try to see them laying down in the high grass.

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Sleep…sleep…watching …sleep…

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and ..sleep…what else ??

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Elly is scoring and scoring with the cats…. So on the way back I was happy with a potential tusker spotten between Croc Bridge and Lower Sabie…. Mhhhh finally a halp point for me

Nice way of showing… no bush, ears wide…

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and more frontal… not bad

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These Vurhami lions certainly like that dam! lol



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Lions sitting and lying down
Vurhami Bridge
Near Crocodile Bridge
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From a 2014 Heksie report:


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Heksie wrote: Sat Mar 01, 2014 12:04 pm
Next up was this monster rock monitor, I initially thought it was a croc.

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I got to LS, freshened up and got some cold fruit juice then I was on my merry way back to camp. I got to the S28 N entrance when I was stopped by these yellow billed kites swooping down for something on the ground.

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Then a few more kilometres on there were a small roadblock, at first I couldn’t make out what it was as I saw grey hair through the foliage. As the roadblock cleared I got a great spot and actually saw that it was a baby ellie, Sparrow guessed a few days old, all on his own. He would walk one way then another, suckling on the tree trunk every now and then. It was heartbreaking to see it. I was at reception at LS when I heard someone reporting it so was glad that when I was there, some employees stopped to assess the situation, you will see the baby ellie in the back, yes that is how small he was. They left again and I stayed with him for another 30 minutes then moved on as it was starting to get hot. Sparrow informed me the next day that he was taken to Skukuza to be taken care of.

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Nothing was really seen on the rest of the road only some warties having brunch

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Heksie wrote: Fri Dec 19, 2014 9:57 am So on our way to CB we had an encounter with buffies

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And then after a few kilometres there were two kings coming from the front each with their own entourage. It was strange that there were only two cars with them but we didn’t complain.

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We stopped and the flashes were flying around until they passed us and then we moved on, we weren’t in the mood to follow them as we already had a great sighting (I believe these were the same two brothers that I saw on the H5 on 26 December…
Some other sightings on our way to Croc Bridge,

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And then on our way back there weren’t a lot of sightings, it seemed that all the animals stayed near the tar, less muddy I presume?

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And then a martial eagle with a kill, just before camp…

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05:11
7 Wild Dogs on the move
H4-2, 850m S of S130 N entrance
Near Lower Sabie
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Some interesting pics after rain in 2015 by Tina:


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Tina wrote: Sat Aug 29, 2015 10:04 am We made a comfort stop at Croc Bridge when heavier rainfall set in but (un)fortunately it only lasted for about an hour

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On the way to Lower Sabie on the H 4-2 we saw a very wet roller

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Tina wrote: Sat Aug 29, 2015 10:05 am about 50 leopard tortoises

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and even the vervets had a drink

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Tina wrote: Sat Aug 29, 2015 10:08 am and when we returned to the H4-2 lots of cars. But there was something walking in front of them - cheetahs O\/

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unfortunately they soon disappeared into the bush

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