Aat&Elly:12 - Roan story

[Pumbaa]

Awesome eland sightings and shots, Aat,

you always have such luck with those rarer antelopes

[Twigga]

I never had the privilege of seeing this beauties !

superb sighting

[aat]

Thanks nan, next story will be about Roan the third of the triple_A(ntelopes)

of course I like it... it was my flavour of the month avril-mai 2017

love this place and even more Elands
nice ... interaction

[aat]

You're right , that last big bull was massive and impressive

Wonderful to see elands in action

That bull is massive

[aat]

Thanks , I am Always hoping to see them and so far ... not bad

Wow, great sightings.

[aat]

Mel, I can;t deny we have had a lot of luck with sightings and it is Always a pleasure to share it with all the friends around here

Time and again I'm astonished by your luck with sightings of the rarer antelopes (and animals generally )

What a splendid sighting

[aat]

Thanks RP, I know you like these big antelopes a lot, so special for you, next story about Roan

Haahhaha! Overexcited bull practising on older bull by mistake!


Lovely specimens there, aat!

[aat]

Thanks Pumbaa , you're right , much luck with the sightings and I hope this will be continued next trip Oct / Nov ... high on the wish list is actually seeing a Caracal ... never seen one in kruger so far... so Always a reason to come back.

Awesome eland sightings and shots, Aat,

you always have such luck with those rarer antelopes

[aat]

Hi Twigga,

May be good idea to spend some more days in Mopani , go between 7 and 9 AM to Tihongonyeni or late afternoon , between 4 and 5 PM , from there drive to the Old Main road , we have seen sable, eland and roan many times in this area.

I never had the privilege of seeing this beauties !

superb sighting

[aat]

*** Travel Tales ***
Trip to Kruger NP 2016 (October – November) New series of Stories

Thanks for all the comments regarding the Eland story

12 – Roan Antelope

The northern regions do have some Antelopes you (almost) don’t see in the central or southern regions. We call it the triple A – Antelopes: Eland, Roan and Sable
After stories about Sable and Eland it’s now time for Roan
And yes…we were lucky again to see them several times during our trip

First time was along the Capricorn Loop in the Mopani region
I almost passed him because he was doing a nap near some bush, but he could not escape from my camera

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I asked him friendly to get up and promised him to show him on internet … he did and I did...

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This was the first sighting with Roan.

4 days later… driving in the northern region we had a great sighting with Roan close to Boyela waterhole.

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Always great to see young ones with them. We counted 14 of them

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They were on their way to the waterhole , but this was occupied by many elephant bulls so they hesitated and went back to the other side of the road. It was very dry and you can see they were a bit thin.

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Posing in front of the palm trees… beautiful

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Next day….
Another sighting with Roan , this time a family of 7

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Suddenly they turned around and moved away.

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3 days later… about 10 km north of Babalala, a bit on a distance but this area was much more green.

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Sunrise and with better light I will finish this story about Roan

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This was about the triple A – Antelopes, very lucky with seeing them all and so many times Roan, it was a real pleasure and love to share this with you


Hope you like it

Aat & Elly