Re: Flavour of the Month - May/June 2019: Grootvlei Dam (S50)
Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 5:24 pm
Immagine what lovely big tree it could become by now 
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Flavour of the Month - May/June 2019: Grootvlei Dam (S50)
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Re: Flavour of the Month - May/June 2019: Grootvlei Dam (S50)
Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 5:26 pm
It looks like a knobthorn, so a miracle it got that big! But there were far fewer elephants then!
Re: Flavour of the Month - May/June 2019: Grootvlei Dam (S50)
Posted: Sun May 26, 2019 10:21 am
A mud-packing Tsessebe
This exercise is achieved by horning muddy patches of ground while the animal is on its knees. Ground-horning and mud-packing are displays of territorial dominance, the mudpack makes the horn looking more impressive
This guy dedicated a lot of time to these exercises and then went off in full muddy glory.
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This exercise is achieved by horning muddy patches of ground while the animal is on its knees. Ground-horning and mud-packing are displays of territorial dominance, the mudpack makes the horn looking more impressive
This guy dedicated a lot of time to these exercises and then went off in full muddy glory.
Re: Flavour of the Month - May/June 2019: Grootvlei Dam (S50)
Posted: Sun May 26, 2019 10:24 am
I wonder if there are any lion photos from this dam? I could have sworn someone put one up somewhere...
Re: Flavour of the Month - May/June 2019: Grootvlei Dam (S50)
Posted: Sun May 26, 2019 10:26 am
Peter Betts had an epic lion encounter there on the dam wall.
Re: Flavour of the Month - May/June 2019: Grootvlei Dam (S50)
Posted: Sun May 26, 2019 11:11 am
Here you are 
Peter Betts wrote: ↑Fri Sep 28, 2018 4:04 pm
Meanwhile on the following EARLY morning I arrived at Grootvlei dam and found 17 and not 13 lions on the dam wall and a huge male unsighted about 500m into the bush roaring his head off...It wasnt overcast this morning just heavy mist as the sun appeared ..creating LOVELY bright SOFT light which didnt even cast a shadow as they let me (Familiar with my vehicle now) approach them as these 2 youngsters beat the hell out of each other in a mock fight (Sickening thuds) Boxing Lions.
Re: Flavour of the Month - May/June 2019: Grootvlei Dam (S50)
Posted: Wed May 29, 2019 8:35 am
Re: Flavour of the Month - May/June 2019: Grootvlei Dam (S50)
Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 3:45 pm
Xmas in the 2015/2016 drought
A large herd of buffalo came in from the south and had a quick drink. Photo taken from the dam wall.
A large herd of buffalo came in from the south and had a quick drink. Photo taken from the dam wall.
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Re: Flavour of the Month - May/June 2019: Grootvlei Dam (S50)
Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 4:57 pm
Not much water there and only the trees in the background are green 
Re: Flavour of the Month - May/June 2019: Grootvlei Dam (S50)
Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 5:35 pm
Just a side note, one wasn't allowed to go onto the wall in the old days, at least not when we were there... 