Dams of the Pilansberg

[Richprins]

Here's help on posting pics?

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It is definitely a cool forum!

[Flutterby]

Welcome flehman, look forward to hearing your stories from the Pilanesberg.

[flehman]

Thanks, its a cool forum! I especially am interested in Pilanesberg as I have been 5 times and love it!

Super Flehman.. welcome - let's see your pics. I just love Pilansberg, oh, and by the way, we are having a members meet there at the end of September. Make a plan and come and meet us..

This is Lengau Dam - as you enter the park through Bakubung Gate. Saw some sacred Ibis and Wooly necked storks and others there.
The backdrop of the mountains is beautiful.

Ha, I would love to be there, however the flights from UK are sooo expensive at the moment :( definitely 2014 though!

[Sharifa]

Haven't been to Pilansberg but looks like we have to put it on the 'to do' list
Thank you cheetah and flehman it is really beautiful

[Amoli]

Ha, I would love to be there, however the flights from UK are sooo expensive at the moment :( definitely 2014 though!

Ooops, didn't realise you were from 'far-away' places.

[Flutterby]

Me too...I suggested the same thing in your thread of Fave Pics! -O

[cheetah]

Eish!
This must get updated now!

Ratlhogo Dam



This is a relatively small and quiet spot, about 3kms from the North-most camp Bakgatla. In the late afternoon you will often find Bakgatla residents having silent sundowners here The dam does not offer the diversity of the central Mankwe dam, but it offers a chance to be very nearby to the resident hippo! Once I was peering around looking for the hippster, and he spouted water up near my face!! The oke was probably only a meter and a half below me

[cheetah]

Ratlhogo Hide COntinued

Gandalf the Grey still lives there





I have often found naughty monkeys lurking around the hide. Their scheme is to sneak in behind you and snatch food out of people's picnic baskets Their timing and judgement is impeccable! On account of this, there are large sticks stationed in the hide, so that one can chase the monkeys out! If you find yourself cornered by these monkeys, I have found the most efficient way to fend them off is by holding the stick to your shoulder and point it like a rifle. They still fools for that

[Sprocky]

Thanks for these posts cheetah!!

Ratlhogo Hide is the only place that I have ever seen a Brown Hyaena.

[cheetah]

Thanks for these posts cheetah!!

Ratlhogo Hide is the only place that I have ever seen a Brown Hyaena.

That is good news!!
We used to see them often! We had a sighting of them this last trip, near Lengau dam in the South. Here is our only sighting of one last year - taken on Tsepe drive where the Kwa-Maritane road meets Kwalata



Mid afternoon nogal