Flavour of the Month September 2015 :S47 - Mingerhout Loop

[Richprins]

There were a couple of younger ones in between



which soon started to squabble with each other – Also a great sighting for us and our feathered friends were today already extreme good to us.





We somehow made it finally to the look out point at Mingerhout dam but as already expected the view was very limited due to the dense vegetation and compared to the just driven loops up to that point the flood did not come so we did not spent much time here and turned around as it was still a long drive back to Olifants.

So whilst driving slowly back and daydreaming we echoed suddenly eye in eye with a grey giant in form of a massive dagga boy with a blade of grass between his teeth!



Out of nowhere the theme melody of the movie “Once Upon a Time in the West” came to my mind and I was reminded of the duell between Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson – Scary!

Gladly our grey friend got soon bored in eying us and trotted off into the bushes.



On the way back we also realized that the juvenile bateleur was still busy with its lunch and we once again had to cross the slippery mud part and soon after we had solid ground under our tyres again another dagga boy popped out of the bushes high above and slipped more or less agile through the deep mud down into the river bed.



It looked like the same we met earlier and here he obviously was in buffaloes Paradise!



Also our fish eagle couple was still sitting the at the place overlooking the river and we could not but had to stop once again.

[Richprins]

Kruger Sightings
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Jul 29

09:30
Male Leopard on the move
on the road and then disappeared into the riverbed
S47, 4.4 km from the H1-6
Near Letaba
Tinged by Leo

[harrys]

Ok I was asked to do the Flavour of the month for Nov/Dec 2018

First up S47

Hippos chilling

Sunbathing

Mom and baby

[Alf]

Interesting road indeed

Have only driven it once

[harrys]

[Richprins]

Some 2015 BluTuna pics:










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[Richprins]

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2h2 hours ago

07:29
3 cheetahs on the move
S47, about 25km W of H1-6
Near Letaba
Tinged by Mandie

[Lisbeth]

[RobertT]

About 3 km before the weir.

[RobertT]