Marie se Draai

[Tina]

Marie se draai/Marie se gat is a loop, about 11 kms long, with a waterhole in the middle. It starts about 5 kms south of Nossob camp.

Marie se gat or Marie’s Hole tells the tale of a determined wife who, when her husband started drinking too much and could not complete work on a borehole, rolled up her sleeves and continued with the rest of the drilling herself!

from KTP Official Information Guide

[Duke]

Tina

A good placefor Brownies for us.

[Mel]

Nearest camps
Nossob: 15 km

Grootkolk: 120 km
Twee Rivieren: 110 km

[Duke]

April 2007, our first trip to the KTP. Back then we had a little sony point and shoot camera with x3 zoom

Out first Gremlin, Brownie and Kalahari lion were all on Marie se Draai

[Bushveld Jock]

Great choice of waterhole. Those that followed my recent TT will know that Maries is one of the best drives to take. I will start off with a few lion sightings:

Solar panel pump working too good - the whole place is soaking wet lovie.



Maries in the Summer:



Traffic jam at Maries:



What a day and all those cars. Its just too much for me.

[Bushveld Jock]

Spotted hyaenas being chased away by gemsbok at Maries:



Believe it or not. Spoonbill seen at Maries in Dec:

[Mel]

Spoonbill - now that's not that common in KTP.

[Tina]

At first we had some bird sightings

08.09.2012

mating PCGs - unfortunately a bit far off

[Tina]

09.09.2012

tawnies

[Mel]

Mating goshawks - great sighting, Tina!

Although Marie hasn't been particularly productive for us, we quite like standing backwards in that
wanna-be parking bay because the vistas are rather nice.







But we always leave and go to Rooikop when the Nossob Crowd moves in.