Richprins' Short Business Trips to The Park

Post by **Pumbaa** » Wed Jul 20, 2016 9:36 pm

De Laporte is meanwhile one of my favourites, Richprins $\O$

There is always something to see there - Great to see still water in Shitlhave - Transport dam looks in fact empty

Post by **Alf** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 7:45 am

We visited transport dam in April and it had a lot more water in then

Where did all that water go

Post by **Richprins** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:17 am

Into the tummies of animals, Alf!

There were heavy storms in early autumn around Pretoriuskop!

Post by **Alf** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 10:37 am

Richprins wrote:Into the tummies of animals, Alf!

There were heavy storms in early autumn around Pretoriuskop!

Then they were really very thirsty

Post by **Bushveld Jock** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 9:13 pm

Richprins wrote:Ja, Puffie!

Anyway they eventually arrived, after dropping in, going to fetch stuff, forgetting food, bringing charcoal etc....

So we could start with the joke:

An Indian, a Coloured, an Afrikaner, a Chinese and two Dutchmen walk into a bar!

Joe, Mark, BL, Kelly and Rex!

You guys should have booked at Pretoriuskop. Saw the crowd at gate closure the Saturday at Pretoriuskop and immediately recognizing the AW T-shirt. Great chatting to them and miss RP as he stayed at home.

Post by **Bushveld Jock** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 9:20 pm

Richprins wrote:Off Borderline and I went to visit Joeking in Berg en Dal on Friday night!

Borderline insisted on entering at Numbi...but I knew it was dense in Pretoriuskop area...

Funny to think of it that we thought of you as we drove pass Biyamiti weir on 24 June remembering the lions sighting. We entered at Malelane gate and booked in at Pretoriuskop around 4 pm. Wonder if we passed each other on the road or even at Transport dam. The elephants had a wonderful time there swimming in the water nearly ontop of the hippos.

Post by **Richprins** » Fri Jul 22, 2016 8:25 am

We did Voortrekker, BJ!

Post by **Richprins** » Mon Jul 25, 2016 5:46 pm

Onward! $\O$

Sabie River is fine!

A nyala!

Sand river a lot drier....but the normal pool at the Low-Level bridge there...

Idyllic!

We had to move along a bit, as we had to meet the Browns at 12 sharp...no tardiness accepted by the hamsters, you know...

N'watindlopfu Dam now has a very weird and pointless truncated loop around the back...one can see neither the trough nor the dam...

But a lovely surprise...SP have reopened Manzimhlope windmill on the S-36, and it will be pumping for many months, literally and figuratively!

That is REALLY the only water for miles there, and seems to be a good way of using "reserve" vegetation during drought times for megafauna, so Kudos to SP!

Doing what lions do best...they shall be revisited later...

Post by **nan** » Mon Jul 25, 2016 5:58 pm

reopened a windmill,. that is good news

hippo and croc seems to be in "good intelligence" $\O$
nice to see so mich water in the Sabie $O/\$

Post by **Dewi** » Mon Jul 25, 2016 6:00 pm

Manzimhlope has changed quite a bit since I was last there 6 years ago RP.

A lot more water back then.

Africa Wild

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