Alien bush trip December 2018

Post by **Alf** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:21 pm

Lisbeth wrote: ↑Tue Jan 29, 2019 8:36 am I have been through the gate, but never stopped at the camp.

It's a nice camp but traffic going out in the evenings can get busy. We saw a guy passing us on the Friday going towards Satara and he came back at 19:30pm.... Hope he got a big fine

Post by **Alf** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:23 pm

Richprins wrote: ↑Tue Jan 29, 2019 8:53 am $\O$ $\O$ $\O$ Alpheus!

The Schoofs were a cricket family, Dudley was a provincial umpire I think?

Quite few old rare photos taken by them in publications years ago.

Oh didn't know that. For how many years did these guys sign a contract with SP to use these donated cottages

Post by **Alf** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:24 pm

Flutterby wrote: ↑Tue Jan 29, 2019 4:19 pm Orpen is a lovely camp!! We stayed in No. 13 a few years ago.

This was now our second time staying in No. 15. Great unit

Post by **Alf** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:25 pm

Pumbaa wrote: ↑Tue Jan 29, 2019 8:03 pm The view from No. 15 is amazing, Alf, $\O$

great that you spotted secretary birds

The area had rain the week before we arrived so didn't see many animals at the webcam.

Post by **Alf** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:36 pm

We had an early braai and then made a nice fire while watching the webcam. By 9pm we were still waiting for animals and decided to call it a day. We wanted to leave early the next morning but couldn't get up....

We ended up staying in camp the whole day taking the little aliens for a swim and some ice cream at the shop. Then at 5pm we saw lots of vultures in the air just above camp and all of a sudden they started dropping one by one not far away from the tar road. Then chaos kicked in and we decided to jump in the car to go and see if it was a kill.

Why found these very close to the road and the others were deeper into the thick bush

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This tawny was watching them

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We couldn't see the rest of them and decided to return to camp for our last braai at Orpen camp

Post by **Flutterby** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:04 pm

Nice birds. $\O$

Post by **harrys** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 2:27 pm

Post by **Lisbeth** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 2:44 pm

I bet that you did not see any animals if you were looking at the webcam

Sometimes staying out of the car is not bad

Nice vultures $\O$

Post by **Richprins** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 5:15 pm

Not a very busy day...saved petrol money!

Nice birdies!

Donor houses return to SANParks after different times - mostly around now!

Post by **Alf** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 8:53 pm

Flutterby wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:04 pm Nice birds. $\O$

It was so nice to be so close to these big birds

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