Africa Wild

The lions looked different 47 years ago

Coming from Skukuza, one crosses the Sabie River within sight of camp, using the narrow low-water bridge:

I wish they would widen the two low level bridges to two lanes.
So often I want to sit and just chill,take in the atmosphere, watch birds, etc. But vehicles going in either direction often put you under pressure to move on

They mostly have little lay-byes where one can stop to the side?

Richprins wrote: ↑Thu Apr 23, 2020 10:01 am They mostly have little lay-byes where one can stop to the side?

I seem to recall one does.
But not the other one.

Here is the next bridge - Sand River!


As one can see these bridges are not high at all, and carefully designed to be overrun by floods every year, normally only closing them for a day or two.


In an emergency the H12 bridge downstream from the Sabie/Sand confluence can be used in all weather.





The Sand is actually a big seasonal river with a large drainage area outside Kruger, although most water runs under the sand, as they say. It sometimes flows more strongly than the Sabie at certain times of year!

Here is a pic of the Lower Sabie bridge flooded, for example...maybe someone has a pic of the Sabie/Sand bridges underwater?






To my knowledge these two bridges have never been washed away!

The low bridges over the bigger rivers like Olifants, Crocodile and Letaba are on a much larger scale and have suffered with the new climate and erosion runoffs...

At the Sand River Bridge:

I remember the odyssey of the Crocodile River Bridge

Nice pic of the lions