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You should actually take your own National Luna Freezer and Solar Panels and Deep Cycle battery pack as those 'Freezers' are actually warm fridges and are always full , stuff gets stolen and your brought in frozen stuff gets soft quickly = health hazard .. We have just stayed at a similar camp (Tsendze) for 3 weeks and our stuff stayed rock hard at minus 18C in our own freezer and folk who only stayed 3-4 nights and used the camp communal fridges (NOT Freezers) lost a lot of vrot food ..You must be self sufficient apart from ablutions
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Thank you, we will plan for that then
Marakele day trips
KNP: May be one day again??
KNP: May be one day again??
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Wild dogs caught an impala
"We heard an animal hit the fence. A pack of wild dogs caught an impala, hyenas took the carcass. Then the wild dogs caught another impala. While all this is happening you could hear a lion roar. "
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That's a year worth of luck in one dayRichprins wrote: ↑Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:06 am Kruger Sightings
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Wild dogs caught an impala
"We heard an animal hit the fence. A pack of wild dogs caught an impala, hyenas took the carcass. Then the wild dogs caught another impala. While all this is happening you could hear a lion roar. "
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Next trip to the bush??
Let me think......................
Let me think......................
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Some BluTuna fun, also 2014:
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BluTuna wrote: ↑Mon Jan 12, 2015 9:51 am
time to try out my new secret weapon.
Introducing The Scorpion Torch
I'd bought this from Take-a-lot a few weeks before and this was the first time I'd tried it out. It only cost R100 so I thought it would be rubbish. I was wrong; Scorpions shine like they have a light bulb in them.
This is what they look like when the fluoresce. The light isn't very bright - this pic was hand held at 1/13 @ F3.5 ISO 6400 using my Tamron 90mm Macro lens.
This is what they look like without the torch.
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BluTuna wrote: ↑Sun Jan 18, 2015 11:04 pm
Back at Balule, the next item on our menu of culinary delights was a Toko trying to ingest a dead bat. It gave up eventually because the bat was too big.
A couple of Grey Louries were having fun in the sprinkler spray.
I spotted this colourful beetle crawling on our fridge.
There was a tree near the boma that was attracting wasps for some reason. There were many Giant Black Spider-Hunting and False Mud-Dauber Wasps.
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BluTuna wrote: ↑Tue Feb 10, 2015 4:29 pm
Baboon Spider.
Another spider that I haven't ID'd yet but might be a Hairy Field Spider.
Here it is RP, you have mentioned previously that you are particularly fond of this lovely creature.
I've been wanting to see one of these ever since I started the bug photography.
A Whip Scorpion! My UV torch didn't make this fluoresce so it's not really a scorpion.
Then there was a large beetle.
And another Tree Creeping Scorpion.
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BluTuna wrote: ↑Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:08 am
Back at Balule, a Robber Fly and a White-fronted Bee-eater.
The afternoon drive was a bust, I didn't get a single picture that was worth posting.
I found this beautiful spider in the entrance to the ablution block. I think it's a Trapdoor Spider of some kind.
It was a bit skittish and was jumping and assuming this aggressive posture every time I moved.
It even jumped and landed upside-down.
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Peter is also doing latestsightings now!
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15:40
1 Red-Billed hornbill on the window wipers
“Check oil and water please”
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1 Red-Billed hornbill on the window wipers
“Check oil and water please”
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