Flavour of the Month - March 2015 - Shabeni Hill

[Alf]

King of his own rock

[Flutterby]

Great pic.

[Richprins]

[Richprins]

The hill last year...new towers going up there regularly!

[Richprins]

On the eastern stretch of the loop one may glimpse a couple of concrete reservoirs up on the hill. These used to supply Pretoriuskop with water in the OLD days, as this was a high-enough point "near" camp to provide the requisite water pressure in the days before practical pump equipment. (The water came from a pumpstation in the Sabie River near Phabeni, and now goes to the reservoirs one sees next to the H1-1 Numbi road near camp.)

In Gus Adendorff's book he mentions that he found a number of baboon skeletons in the open disused reservoirs in his early years as ranger there (1960's), as they would play/drink inside when rain left them fullish, and not be able to get out.

So they wedged some dead trees in to give them an avenue out!

[leachy]

On the eastern stretch of the loop one may glimpse a couple of concrete reservoirs up on the hill. These used to supply Pretoriuskop with water in the OLD days, as this was a high-enough point "near" camp to provide the requisite water pressure in the days before practical pump equipment. (The water came from a pumpstation in the Sabie River near Phabeni, and now goes to the reservoirs one sees next to the H1-1 Numbi road near camp.)

In Gus Adendorff's book he mentions that he found a number of baboon skeletons in the open disused reservoirs in his early years as ranger there (1960's), as they would play/drink inside when rain left them fullish, and not be able to get out.

So they wedged some dead trees in to give them an avenue out!

i think that the oom said that the old reservoir on the top of "phabeni kop" was filled from boreholes at the base of the hill...

[Richprins]

[Richprins]

Some views of and from Shabeni in this year's winter!










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[Flutterby]

[Lisbeth]

Nice scenery shots, RP