Flavour of the Month August 2013 - Pretoriuskop Loop Roads

[mposthumus]

Fayi stream

[Richprins]

Looking West from Pretorius Koppie!

[Amoli]

I loved the rock formations in this whole area around Pretoriuskop..







and when sightings are few, then the grass bouquets are there to intrigue you..

[mposthumus]

[nan]

Is that a view of Pretoriuskop ? I think from the loop

[nan]

[Richprins]

Is that a view of Pretoriuskop ? I think from the loop

Ja, nana! That looks about right?

The restcamp's main buildings burn down every few years!


One thing about these loops is that one may be surprised by any rare antelope in Kruger, according to historical records...

I have seen plenty sable, about 4 Liechtensteins' sightings, many tsessebe, reedbuck, and even a big herd of eland near the Faai stream crossing!

I think the eland and Liechtensteins' are dead by now...they were in the "Rare antelope Camp" at Hlangwini just where one leaves the loops to go South on the Voortrekker road, part of various plans to put antelope in quarantine in the 80's, and simply released later. But still, you never know! Roan antelope occurred there naturally in significant numbers when Kruger was created, a natural population, but died out in the 70's-80's when a significant part of their habitat was excised from Kruger mostly due to the new railway over Numbi.

[nan]

thank you RP
about Lichtenstein's I saw one (or maybe several, can't remember ) a little bit more north maybe much more north...
and I saw Sables at the start of the Voortrekker road, not so far from Fayi Loop

[Richprins]

Liechtenstein's were imported from Malawi in the 80's, upon a surmisal that they had occurred in the Kruger area, due to bushman/san cave painting evidence, for example.

Entirely fair enough, but the environment has changed since then, although the released imports still survive in the far North!

The PK ones were kept in the rare antelope camp there as insurance against disease up north...like eland, tsessebe etc.

[mposthumus]