Sixty, and stuck in the sand. KTP summer 2018

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PRWIN wrote: Thu Jul 25, 2019 7:37 pm GavinW that sand on top have caught a lot of people, Did you not know about that water hole, it is fresh drinking water and not salty, the cats are going to love it as it is starting to show, which is going to be dangerous for people camping at 5 and 6 if they are not aware of that water hole, It was sunk in August last year if I'm correct by the lodge for fresh drinking water for them".

Great photo's so far
Hi PRWIN, no we only heard about it this last trip
We are back in Sept/Oct so will be watching it carefully
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Yes the Lions always seem to walk up the road to No 3 ..turn left and go straight to No 5 for a drink at the Tank ..It happenned almost daily in our 2 week stay in April


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That lion is a really big and strong one :shock: :shock:


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Thanks everyone for all your input \O

A bok and a bird

There is one given in the Kgalagadi, and that is that there is no given
After our exciting day, the previous day, we really didn’t know what the Kgalagadi would dish us up today.
We woke, once again to the far off sound of lions roaring.

We decided, being creatures of habit to go north once again.

Well we saw nothing, and by nothing I mean nothing.

Eventually after driving up as far as Melkvlei, we turned and returned to Kij Kij
Still nothing

The dune road was a bit more productive.

A far away flat lion at Tierkop spiked our interest for a while, but eventually this Kalahari Chicken stole the show
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WE drove around to Twee Rivieren and all was quiet

This springbok was being watched by a falcon at a waterhole
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Otherwise, the day was quiet, even our evening drive was totally unproductive. That is what you come to expect in the Kgalagadi
The sunset can always be relied upon.


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Nothing like Rooiputs


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Monday 7 January, our last full day in the park

As usual we started our day by heading up to Kij Kij hoping to catch the early sightings before all the Twee Rivieren cars caught up with us.
Today we were rewarded with this stunning sighting of a Brown Hyena at the Kij Kij waterhole
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We had really been lucky this trip with more brown hyena sightings than ever before

The hyena eventually moved off, which with the ablutions at Melkvlei calling we decided to do the same

While we were at the picnic site, we were alerted to a very flat lion, far up on the dunes above the picnic area. It was so far away that even looking at it with our binoculars was a challenge, so after doing the loop around Melkvlei we turned and set off for Twee Rivieren



As we trundled down south, we came upon this road block just before Leeudril

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I wonder how many of the chicks would make it to maturity, hopefully most of them as they are quite big already.


We met up with the Danish family in Twee Rivieren who were asking where in the camp they could refill their gas bottle.
Only in Askam was the reply, and they were about to leave the park to head down to get the bottle filled.
Today, being our last day and knowing that I still had a full bottle back at camp, I offered to swop our full bottle for their empty one to save them the trip

After purchasing what we needed, we returned to Rooiputs to start packing up some of the stuff around the camp in preparation for tomorrow’s departure

That evening we took a drive up to Kij Kij and back.
All was quiet bar some of the usual suspects

Our last sunset of the trip did not disappoint.

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A final gift from the Kgalagadi

The previous day when we were swopping gas bottles with our Danish friends; they mentioned that they had not seen any brown hyenas so far this trip.
No problem, follow us, we’ve seen loads and quite a few at Kij Kij, and we are taking a quick drive up there in the morning before we leave for home
So the next morning we set off to see if we would be lucky

Arriving at the waterhole at about 6:45, we found no brownies, but these two cheetah instead

O/\ O/\
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We watched them until they moved off, where after we needed to return to Rooiputs to finish packing, hitch the trailer and set off on the 12 hour drive back to Cape Town

Leaving the park is always sad, but we knew that we would be back

Thanks everyone for following our travel through the majestic Kgalagadi, your comments and support are always really appreciated

O0 O0

See you again in Sept 2019
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Better cheetahs than brownie IMO ;-)

It was nice of you to help the Danish tourists, I am sure that they appreciated it a lot \O

Thank you for sharing, Gavin ^Q^ ^Q^


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What a way to depart ^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^

:ty: for sharing your trip with us \O


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Great trip ^Q^


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