Flavour of the Month - June 2015: S143 Tropic of Capricorn and Tihongonyeni waterhole

[Richprins]

One virtually guaranteed animal to see there is Kori Bustard!

Trip report:

Upon approaching the spot, a Rare sighting, striding majestically through the scrub, proudly eking out a living in what is obviously one of the last refuges of this magnificent creature!! :










Kori Bastards are on the Big 7 list or something...so lovely to see!



Then about 30 metres further on...:










Then, 30m further on, another one....and then another couple.....and so forth... :roll:


I could only be sure of a minimum six of them in that area, as they were wandering about all over the place, posing and flirting and not looking terribly endangered at all!

[Alf]

This waterhole is calling me

[nan]

go... go... is one of the best place... but in the North

[Lisbeth]

I have made a note

[Richprins]

[Richprins]

[Richprins]

flying cheetah 2012:

https://www.africawild-forum.com/viewto ... 6&start=10

Last year I had several wonderful pics on the Tropic of Capricorn loop (S143) and during my stay at Mopani I drove it 6 times. Not one drive without a memorable sighting
On a rainy day I saw this Eland that slowly walked towards the waterhole. Unfortunely a big herd of Buffalos arrived at the same time and the Eland dissappeared without getting close to me. Here
are the best pics I got...

This trip I was extremely lucky with Roan sightings. I love this skittish antelopes and I hope the outbreak of Anthrax didn't take too many of them
I saw this bull who stayed close to my car for 30 minutes on the S143 (probably the best road to find Roan):

[Richprins]

Today I have some pics of another great Roan sighting for you, taken at Tihanganyeni (S143):

[Richprins]

Another lovely sighting near Tihanganyeni were these Wildebeests with a nearly newborn calf. It seemed that the whole herd tried to protect the little one and I had to wait a good while before I could take the pics without any adults between my camera and the calf

[Richprins]

I told you already that I drove the Tropic of Capricorn - loop several times but this one afternoon the road seemed to be deserted. Even at the waterhole there was not much to be seen and so I decided to go back to camp early to lit my fire. Before I left ther waterhole another car came from the direction I was heading to now and they also told me that they saw nothing. What can I say??
I drove for 3 or 4 minutes and I had the most fantastic cheetah sighting The 2 brothers were hanging around a no entry sign for 20 minutes before they slowly walked away from me . One of them even looked back as if he wanted to ask me to follow them I watched them until they were only small shadows in my binocs. Needless to say that I arrived at camp just before closing time...Once again I was the only car for the whole time and I seriously fell in love with the Mopani area