Kruger Sightings
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24h24 hours ago
10:30
2 Tsessebe and 2 bull elephant
S50, Grootvlei dam
Near Mopani
Vis 5/5
Tinged by Jorick
Flavour of the Month - May/June 2019: Grootvlei Dam (S50)
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Re: Flavour of the Month - May/June 2019: Grootvlei Dam (S50)
Forum search for Grootvlei delivered a decent tusker: Ngodzi
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Re: Flavour of the Month - May/June 2019: Grootvlei Dam (S50)
From an old travel tale another sighting of Tsessebe ground-horning
https://www.africawild-forum.com/viewto ... 470#p66470
https://www.africawild-forum.com/viewto ... 470#p66470
leachy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 20, 2012 12:43 pm
so.........
one full day left in the park (oh bother!!!!!!)
and i head off towards the capricorn loop
via the isdood desert and the grootvlei dam......
arrived at the dam just as morning prayers were taking place
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then a short sniff sniff in the air to determine the daily plan before their next stop.........
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Re: Flavour of the Month - May/June 2019: Grootvlei Dam (S50)
Visited this dam only once and it was during August 2015
It was very dry
It was very dry
Next trip to the bush??
Let me think......................
Let me think......................
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Re: Flavour of the Month - May/June 2019: Grootvlei Dam (S50)
And some lovely views of the dam in the wet season by Pumbaa. A keen photographer with a good lens can also do some tele zoom birding there
https://www.africawild-forum.com/viewto ... 91#p167366
https://www.africawild-forum.com/viewto ... 91#p167366
Pumbaa wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2014 1:06 am
It did not take long then we reached Grootvlei and there our drive on this road was finished as from here the road further North was finally closed but gladly we could pay a visit at the dam itself
which was extreme full and compared to the only one time we have ever been there where there only was a mud puddle left it looked so beautiful and totally different and simply lovely with so much water left.
On the couple of dead trees which stuck out of the water hundreds of cattle egrets could be noticed -
Would love to know at what this one was looking at?
Most of them where busy in cleaning their plumage and some of them really inspected everything very carefully one of them finished looking under its wings and then the next one took over and did the same thing.
For us funny to drive was right on the dam wall at least we did not see any sign that this is forbidden nor any barrier and noticed also other tire tracks on the ground and so we supposed that same was allowed. You are located far higher on that wall and one is having a brilliant overview without any disturbing vegetation.
At the end of the dam there was even a possibility of turning the car around and drive back on the one lane dam. A grey heron landed next to the cattle egrets
and so did an Egyptian goose.
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Nice research, Klippies!
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Re: Flavour of the Month - May/June 2019: Grootvlei Dam (S50)
Kruger is really unique in its differences between the dry and the wet season. Personally, I prefer the green one It's a pleasure just to look at the scenery and it is not completely without animals, just have a look at Pumbaa's TTs, which are all from February
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Kruger Sightings
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19h19 hours ago
12:30pm
70 elephants drinking and bathing
S50, at Grootvlei waterhole, 7km south of Nyawutsi
Near Shingwedzi
Vis 4/5
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Kruger Sightings
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23h23 hours ago
10:15 am
3 lion stationary
'Quite far away on south side of dam but clearly visible'
S50, grootvlei dam
Near Shingwedzi
3/5
Tinged by Lilli
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23h23 hours ago
10:15 am
3 lion stationary
'Quite far away on south side of dam but clearly visible'
S50, grootvlei dam
Near Shingwedzi
3/5
Tinged by Lilli
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