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Flavour of the Month March 2014: Gardenia Hide and S-119
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 7:29 pm
by Richprins
Hello!
fc is nowhere to be found regarding nominating this month, so I will do it!
This hide and road are sometimes not regularly visited, but regularly provide great sightings!
Flavour of the Month March 2014: Gardenia Hide and S-119
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 7:29 pm
by Toko
Map: Gardenia Hide & S119
Re: Flavour of the Month March 2014: Gardenia Hide and S-119
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 7:37 pm
by Richprins
Re: Flavour of the Month March 2014: Gardenia Hide and S-119
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 7:50 pm
by Duke
Richprins wrote:
This hide and road are sometimes not regularly visited, but regularly provide great sightings!
Sure does, and the S119 has a beautiful Jackalberry tree
Saw my first wild dogs on this road circa 1984
Re: Flavour of the Month March 2014: Gardenia Hide and S-119
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 8:07 pm
by Toko
This is what there was to be seen on my last visit in August
Re: Flavour of the Month March 2014: Gardenia Hide and S-119
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 8:09 pm
by Richprins
Sjoe, you are old, Duke!
Thanks, Toko!
Saw my 5th leopard there, I think...circa 1989...
Actually a funny story! There are quite a few viewpoints south of the hide...and us students stopped in the middle of nowhere, and had our morning coffee and rusks, after having left camp at gate opening while camping!
How times have changed!
There is quite a prominent Marula tree on the other bank...it was still quite leafy in winter...
And lo and behold a leopard jumped out of it, causing consternation in the gelandewagen!
Re: Flavour of the Month March 2014: Gardenia Hide and S-119
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 6:16 pm
by Duke
Our first wild dog sighting in Kruger - scanned photo
Re: Flavour of the Month March 2014: Gardenia Hide and S-119
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 6:36 pm
by Richprins
A wounded one!
Not a snare? Snares normally lower down the neck?
(You know the best way of scanning, imo, is to take a digital camera pic of the photo using the macro function? Almost faultless!
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Re: Flavour of the Month March 2014: Gardenia Hide and S-119
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 7:19 pm
by Amoli
This is my only pic of the S119 leading on to the s25. Being new in Kruger I didn't know I could travel to the hide and back - it was only the S25 that was closed.
I will certainly do that road at the end of April.
Re: Flavour of the Month March 2014: Gardenia Hide and S-119
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 8:04 pm
by Richprins
