Re: Flavour of the Month May & June 2018- S126 Sweni Drive
Posted: Fri May 25, 2018 10:10 am
Good for the kudu, bad for the lion! 
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Flavour of the Month May & June 2018- S126 Sweni Drive
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Re: Flavour of the Month May & June 2018- S126 Sweni Drive
Posted: Fri May 25, 2018 10:10 am
the old man was not impressed....
Re: Flavour of the Month May & June 2018- S126 Sweni Drive
Posted: Fri May 25, 2018 10:18 am
Well then he should have given it a go!
Re: Flavour of the Month May & June 2018- S126 Sweni Drive
Posted: Fri May 25, 2018 10:28 am
He looks well fed 
Nice to see a lion looking so healthy
Nice to see a lion looking so healthy
Re: Flavour of the Month May & June 2018- S126 Sweni Drive
Posted: Fri May 25, 2018 10:42 am
This was near the first windmill, hey leachy? 
Re: Flavour of the Month May & June 2018- S126 Sweni Drive
Posted: Fri May 25, 2018 10:53 am
Re: Flavour of the Month May & June 2018- S126 Sweni Drive
Posted: Fri May 25, 2018 4:43 pm
I wonder if I have ever taken this road all the way down to the S36. I often enter the road to see what is along the river, but make a u-turn to continue to Satara.
Just before the road, from the bridge over the Sweni River : Elephants and Buffaloes.
Just after the entrance of the road : Elephant
Just before the road, from the bridge over the Sweni River : Elephants and Buffaloes.
Re: Flavour of the Month May & June 2018- S126 Sweni Drive
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 10:21 am
From a 2012 ossendryver report (night drive):
https://www.africawild-forum.com/viewto ... =46&t=1285ossendryver wrote: ↑Tue Nov 27, 2012 11:32 am
And then we got the Sweni Lion Pride on the S126
Shame, the male was very, very injured and was limping terribly.
A sad day for lions that day was.
But the sightings still made up for it.
Especially an African Wild Cat
Re: Flavour of the Month May & June 2018- S126 Sweni Drive
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 10:24 am
ossendryver wrote: ↑Thu Nov 29, 2012 9:02 am
We thought that the hyena might still be at the Sweni Waterhole for my dad.
It wasn't
But out second lion sighting for the day was.
But what happened next was an experience we all will never ever forget.
At the waterhole was a huge herd of elephants.
Suddenly they all stopped drinking and started running towards us.
Wasn't a charge but just their daily route.
But the sight of having a herd of 100+ elephants running towards you is quite unbelievable.
Re: Flavour of the Month May & June 2018- S126 Sweni Drive
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2018 6:40 pm
About three quarters of the way to the west along the road one gets Welverdiend waterhole.
Now this place, which seems long-closed now, is strangely remote, if that makes sense, and the archetypal African Experience, IMO. Perhaps because there were/are huge umbrella thorns, or certainly big acacias of some sort, someone must go and look?
It is a turnoff to the Sweni river area, but the river is feeble there:
I hope this is right... one gets to a circular little parking lot around one of the thorniest bushes on earth. DON't veer off, or you will get a puncture, no matter how desperately you seek shade!
There is a long view of a generally barren area, it is always barren, with a trough.
A 2016 pic from Bushcraft:
Anyway, in the early 1990's I spent a LOT of time alone at this place over a couple of years when I had a holiday invitation to Orpen. I enjoyed it, but had terrible luck, arriving just after hearing of death and destruction there the day before sort of thing, or hearing about same once I had left.
Memory fades, but I remember lots of vultures drinking all the time!
On my last day-sitting trip, I was slumbering off not expecting anything after another disappointing day, when in the afternoon I looked up to see one of those sights that takes a while to register in your mind as appearing to be impossible!
From the right side appeared an eland cow!
I think it was an escaped animal from the bunch of game farms around the Timbavati area, and they travel huge distances. The nearest population may have been in the mopani area north of Houtboschrand - Red Gorten?
Nobody believed me, but a rare sighting!
Now this place, which seems long-closed now, is strangely remote, if that makes sense, and the archetypal African Experience, IMO. Perhaps because there were/are huge umbrella thorns, or certainly big acacias of some sort, someone must go and look?
It is a turnoff to the Sweni river area, but the river is feeble there:
I hope this is right... one gets to a circular little parking lot around one of the thorniest bushes on earth. DON't veer off, or you will get a puncture, no matter how desperately you seek shade!
There is a long view of a generally barren area, it is always barren, with a trough.
A 2016 pic from Bushcraft:
Anyway, in the early 1990's I spent a LOT of time alone at this place over a couple of years when I had a holiday invitation to Orpen. I enjoyed it, but had terrible luck, arriving just after hearing of death and destruction there the day before sort of thing, or hearing about same once I had left.
Memory fades, but I remember lots of vultures drinking all the time!
On my last day-sitting trip, I was slumbering off not expecting anything after another disappointing day, when in the afternoon I looked up to see one of those sights that takes a while to register in your mind as appearing to be impossible!
From the right side appeared an eland cow!
I think it was an escaped animal from the bunch of game farms around the Timbavati area, and they travel huge distances. The nearest population may have been in the mopani area north of Houtboschrand - Red Gorten?
Nobody believed me, but a rare sighting!