Kij Kij

[nan]

If nobody... why not Kij Kij
or maybe you prefer/want to let down... the Kgalagadi

[Toko]

Kij Kij waterhole is located between the Nossob road and the lower dune road.

[nan]

Oryx 20.4.2007

rainy day 2.2.2012

Tawny

[Bushveld Jock]

One of my fav waterholes too. Some might remember the sightings we had there from my last KTP trip report, but just to refresh let me repeat a few again:

Lioness drinking late morning (Dec 2013):





My most memorable moment was that of a eland calf that drank and walked right into the direction of a lion on the dune. Poor thing did not know where to go. That happened in 2007 so I will browse through some old pics and see if I can find it.

[Bushveld Jock]

Thirsty spotted hyaenas drinking and bathing in Dec 2013:

[Bushveld Jock]

Cheetah family with kill a few meters north of Kij-Kij under this first large tree on the west side of the river (Nov 2011):

[Bushveld Jock]

I found my old pics of the eland at Kij-Kij (July 2007). It was also one of those years that the eland migrated to KTP from Botswana only to die after drinking too much or too salty water.





I am watching you.



Not sure if this was the same eland as above, but sadly the next day we found marks on the road of a huge struggle and the remains on which BBL were feasting a few 100 meters from Kij-Kij.

[Duke]

November 2012 when there was a dead Eland or three at every water hole, we found this scene near the Kij Kij waterhole



and at the waterhole



and some moving from dead eland to waterhole

[nan]

Ludwig's Bustard 22.1.2012

[Mel]

Do these cheetahs have names?

Love the hyena photo

It's Gertie with her offspring Merty, Nertie and Zertie.