Africa Wild

King of his own rock

Great pic.

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

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!

Richprins wrote: ↑Sat Sep 08, 2018 5:16 pm 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...

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










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Nice scenery shots, RP