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Kruger park December 2016 - another Self Drive.


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We ventured on along the H1-3 and crossed the Nwanetsi stream bridge , there was a car stopped on the bridge and to our delight there was a small pride of 6 lions (4 lionesses + 2 elderly cubs). They were taking things pretty easy but it was a nice sighting.

We hit the H6 all the way down to the S37 were we wanted to go have our mid morning coffee and rusk in the Sweni hide.

The Sweni hide is a great place to chill and relax and watch the animals come to drink as there is usually plenty of water, except for this time as the water was only a small water hole. It is one of my favourite places in Kruger.

It was very quiet when we first got there and the only residents was some crocodile and 3-4 hippo's. The WKF were active along with a few Blacksmith Lapwings.

At the back of the waterhole there was a another casualty of the drought - a dead hippo.

There was an elderly couple also sitting in the hide enjoying the peacefulness and we got chatting away and asked if the had been much activity.

They said "oh yes a male lion was here for an hour feeding on the hippo" and left about 10 mins ago. Bummer we missed it :mellow:. We discussed whether or not the hippo was killed by the Lion or fell or slipped on the rocks because it was weak, I suspect the Lion or Lions!!!

However over the next 20 mins we were greeted by a few impala coming to drink along with a small family of elephants. These animals saw the hippo casualty and cautiously moved around it.

It was wonderful sitting there watching the elephants do there thing. It was starting to get very hot again, up in the high 30's.

After about 45 mins in the hide we decided to leave. The S37 Trichardt road wraps around the back of the hide and I said to FIL lets drive up behind the hide and see if "Bubesi" is around.

As we drove up around the corner who should be there a stunning big black manned lion who was the guy who took down the hippo. His belly was as full as an egg and he was not going anywhere.

What a great way to finish our morning drive - we headed back to Satara for brunch seeing more hippo casualties of the drought.

 

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Day 3 - Afternoon cats

The afternoon was absolutely cooking, the temp got to about 38-39 degrees.

On our afternoon drive we headed south of Satara on the H1-3 tar road down to Nkaya pan, we were pleasantly surprised with what we saw, I think it was a Western Osprey (some twitches in camp also think it is an Osprey, it was a stunning bird standing in the water trying to cool off I think. Can anyone positively identify this bird?

We backtracked to the Sweni road passing the Sweni bridge and some cars had stopped, there was a male leopard chilling under some palms in the heat of the afternoon. It was a special sighting and our first Leopard of the trip.

Enjoying the view of the Leopard FIL looked back behind us and what should run across the road into the bush but a Honey Badger, I did get a photo but it was not the best shot. It was the first time I have seen a HB in daylight hours and was pretty stoked by this.

A few cars started to bank up so we headed down off down the sweni road were we were greeted by poomba!

A car stopped us and said there was a cheetah up track abit but quite far off the road, we eventually found the cat but it was along way off and very relaxed under the tree. Even though it was about 5:00pm the temp was still very hot and all the animals were lazy.

We decided to head back towards camp.

Crossing the Nwanetsi stream bridge we saw the same 6 lions again , this time the sighting was much better and we had the perfect view of them. Who was to think in 2 days time this dry stream would be a raging torrent of water.

Well that was the end of day 3 and it was back to camp to light the braai and get a cold beer. As @@deano says "Gee I love Africa"!

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@@mvecht - thanks for that, I am really not sure. You are probably on the money.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Apologies for no update - we have lost WIFI and internet access at home. Once repaired I will get back into the trip report.

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Towlersonsafari

enjoying your report @Hads-and what a stark contrast from your trip and the drought still having effect to our trip in February with about a month of rain having such an effect!

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Have much enjoyed catching up on this report @@Hads - lots of variety and much to appreciate - I particularly like the hippos clash, steenbok and klipspringer.

 

Hope WiFi is restored soon.

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Back in action , finally got the internet back up and running, the joys of living in remote WA.

I think we are on Day 4, FIL was behind the wheel today and he decided to head back towards the Sweni hide via the Satara-Nwaneti road (H6).

We came across a family of Hyena's on this road and were very relaxed, the kids were tucking into some breakfast and mum just casually glanced at us as we watched the goings on.

Closer to the Sweni hide we came across a beautiful Verreaux's Eagle owl ( well I think it is - can anyone confirm this again please ?) it was still pretty dark and I did not get the best of photo's and then a Giraffe who had a skin disease (maybe mange or a wart condition).

We finally made it o the Sweni hide to have a look at the hippo carcass and see if it had more predators around it. It was pretty quiet but the hippo was getting smaller in size and something had definitely had a good chew on it overnight.

After 20-30 mins we moved on and FIL decided we should drive up around the back of the hide were we saw the big black maned lion yesterday.

Great call this as this morning there was 4 Lions, the big black maned guy, a lioness and 2 stunning Blond maned brothers. These 2 blond lions have to be some of the most stunning male lions I have seen.

This area of kruger is famous for it's white lions and I wonder if these guys have abit of the white lion gene's in there blood, they are definitely lighter in colour, all 4 were stunning cats all the same. What a cracking start to the day.

We enjoyed these cats for quite awhile before heading towards the Timbavati picnic site for a brew, we visited the Ratel pan hide and watched plenty of Marabou & yellow billed storks and spoonbill's feeding in the Timbavati river along with some catfish swimming in the shallows. It was quite strange around this area as the river was flowing, their must of been rains to the north the previous night.

The drought has definitely taken it's toll just north of Satara.

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DAY 4 Cont - After a light brunch FIL decided to put his feet up to get some 40 winks, I took the opportunity to head back to the Sweni hide to see what the cats were up to and what else I could bump into along the way.

On the Nwanetsi road a car was stopped and I could see they were looking towards a flock of Vulture's about 100 metres off the roadside. I noticed a lioness move off quickly then a Hyena appeared out of nowhere looking quite nervous. The vultures were feeding on something but I could not see what.

Further up track I came across a nice Kudu and pleasant little steenbok along with a pair of Ostriches and a black bellied bustard.

A lone Hyena was also out in the heat of the day walking road side.

It was another scorcher of a day (around the 40 deg C mark) and by the time I got to the cats they were literally 10 toes up (asleep) except one of the blonde's.

Even if it is extremely hot I must admit I just can't get enough of going on safari.

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Day 4 - Afternoon drive.

If there is one thing FIL and I are verrrrryyyy good at, that is ensuring we have a few cold beers packed for the afternoon drive.

Today was no exception as the temperature was at it's peak in the low 40's.

We did not travel to far from Satara and headed in a North direction up to Ntomeni pan and then back south to the Sweni road, the S126 turn off.

Just north of Satara there was 3 lappet faced vultures on the burning sand, one of them looked cooked to me as he was laying horizontal and his friends were with him trying to work out what was going on. I think time had caught up with the poor old vulture.

We got a pleasant surprise further north along the tarred H1-4 coming across our first white Rhino, I can see why they are not here as the grass is not here either..... Further northwards there was general game and I got to see my first Woolly necked stork and there was a couple of lazy lions passed out in the heat.

We turned around and decided to head back south to the Sweni bridge turnoff were we saw Mr Leopard yesterday. We were lucky as he was still there sitting in a branch but sound asleep in the heat of the afternoon, we enjoyed a cold beer watching him and then FIL decided it was time to get back to camp and light the braai.

What a great way to end another special day in the bushveld.

Who would of thought what was going to happen overnight. The next day was a complete contrast in the weather. The clouds were building and that night we were treated to a stunning lightning show.

Gee I love Africa :)

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Day 5 - The rains came and the roads closed.

We awoke to a very dark morning and it was raining, at this stage FIL and I were unsure how much rain we had.It became evident early in the drive that there was plenty of overnight rain. We were later told at the Satara reception that there was 75mm overnight.

The accommodation with thatched roofs makes it very difficult to hear the rains.

What a blessing to the whole Satara region which was well and truly over due for decent rains.

We had a perimeter fence chalet and the water was everywhere.

Before I get started on the mornings drive I will just compare the area at Nwanetsi bridge were we saw a lion pride 2 days earlier was a torrent and the Sweni bridge.

Nsemani dam went from dry as a chip to overflowing overnight it was quite an amazing spectacle.

Apologies some photo's are with an I-Phone and not that clear.

I thought I had better photo's to share of the rains but for some reason I can not locate them. Hopefully FIL has more in his lot.

 

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its amazing what a difference the rain mkaes in such a short space of time @@Hads

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Day 5 - The rains came cont.

We decided to head back to the Sweni hide this morning and see how the rain had affected the Sweni river. Unbeknown to FIL and myself all dirt roads in the region had been closed and when we got down to the Trichardt road S37, it had chains across the entrance with signage saying roads closed.

However the travels down the Nwanetsi road proved quite fruitful as we came across a lone Bull Elephant browsing, a leopard tortoise enjoying a cool change and the Hyena clans were out and about, I think there den's had a good flush out from the drain culverts.

We witnessed one Hyena pup calling to it's mother, I did not realise how loud these little guys were and the mother came racing to get the little guy and carried it off in it's mouth.

Seeing we were limited to where we could drive we headed south and decided to have breakfast at Tshokwane, great little picnic area which overlooks the Mungwini stream and set amongst beautiful tree's.

Just south of the Sweni turnoff we came across a car stopped and they pointed out a cheetah in the distance, abit to far to get decent photo's but a nice sighting all the same. Wildebeest were close by but not paying much attention to the spotted cat.

A first bird sighting for me was a violet backed starling which was nice.

Once we reached the Kumana dam , which had reasonable water in it there was another casualty of the drought as 2 male lions had killed a baby hippo, it is amazing how much these guys can eat. There was a sprinkling of general game along the way and we reached Tshokwane content with the cool change in weather and ready for a coffee and a hearty brekkie.

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Day 5 Cont - Bullfrog bonanza

Leaving Tshokwane we headed south for a few km's as we heard that there were some lions close by, we did not find them but we were lucky enough to catch a decent sighting of a leopard walking through the bush. He came close by and walked under the road through a drain. Unfortunately I was parked on the wrong side of the drain and I did not get the best photo's of him, great sighting all the same, as you know "you just never know what is around the corner".

The leopard did not hang around and we started heading north again towards Satara.

As there was plenty of big pools of water at stages along the road we stopped near one as there were 2 beautiful saddle billed storks chilling out beside the road and pools of water. I noticed something small bobbing around the pools and we then realised that they were big green frogs of some description.

We drove on further and decided to head into Nkaya pan as the road had not been closed off. What a stroke of luck this was, as we drove into the track in 3-5 inches of water and carefully reached the pan which was now a massive pool of water we were greeted by dozens of large green bullfrogs singing and dancing and getting up to all sorts of shenanigans.

They were pairing up and looking to breed one would think.

It is amazing how nature works - these bullfrogs must hibernate in the dirt and when the good rains come they get out and boogie.

This was a first for both FIL and myself and we did not see anymore on the trip, very lucky indeed to see this Bullfrog Bonanza. A unique sighting that is for sure.

We arrived back at Satara near on lunch and were very satisfied with our big morning and the beautiful rain that had fallen.

 

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Day 5 - Late afternoon drive.

This afternoon's drive was generally pretty quiet. Due to all the dirt roads being closed we headed west on the H7 towards Orpen gate. We came across a stunningly well groomed Male lion - he definitely had a Bee Gee's groomed hair style. Apologies for the pics of him , I should of used manual focus.

There was plenty of birds about, bataleur are always nice to photograph along with my old mate the WKF !

Another great day in the park had come to an end, it was time for a beer or 3 and a lekker braai and listen to the noise of the bush.

The elephant skeleton was earlier in the day near Kumana dam, another casualty of the drought.

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@@Hads , was the second lion intentionally OOF or was it AF-A the culprit?

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What a great sight to see the Bullfrogs! and I ddi enjoy the baby hyena photo's earlier and the Saddle bill Storks really stand out @@Hads. I have assumed you have beena few times to the Kruger-to you have a favourite time and area to visit?

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@xelas the automatic focus was the culprit and a touch of operator error I suspect.

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Thanks @Towelersonsafari for following along.

I enjoy the kruger any chance I can get, I think I mentioned to you before that my In-laws live 4 hours south of Kruger.

My favourite area is Satara due to the open plains area, my last 3 visits have been in December which is quite hot but the grass is pretty low, you also get longer gate opening times from 0430 to 1830hrs.

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Satara to Lower Sabie via Skukuza for brunch.

 

Coffee and rusk in hand we got away from Satara early once more around 0445hrs.

Today we were heading to our new destination being Lower Sabie. We could not check in until 2:00pm so we decided that we would head to Skukuza for brunch.

It was quite overcast and there was a little misty rain. I did not take as many photo's this morning just enjoyed the drive south along the H1-3. We ducked into Nkaya pan again but there was not 1 bullfrog in sight. The Satara region looked refreshed after the beautiful rains and it is only a matter of time that the grasses will come back.

@Towelersonsafari report will no doubt show that.

Just south of Tshokwane picnic sight there were 5 bachelor Giraffe's sparring , no damage was being done to one another.

Once again there was a sprinkling of general game. Near Skukuza we went and visited Lake Panic hide which is fantastic for birders. There we some nice white faced ducks and a grey Heron along with a couple of Pro photographers with massive canon's.

Skukuza was busy as normal , it was great to have breakfast there though overlooking the Sabie River which had some Dagga boys in it minding their own business.

 

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Skukuza to Lower Sabie

 

We decided to head to Lower Sabie by going via the old waterhole road and then head east and get onto the S112/S21 dirt roads.

The waterhole road is well worth a trip and I have had some nice sightings along this road over the years.

This time was no different with a good sighting of white backed vulture's a resident hippo at the dam at the corner section of the road and a surprise up at the southern end of the road.

As FIL and I often say "you just never know what's around the corner".

It was the heat of the day up in the mid 30's so we did not expect to see much, however at the Southern end of the waterhole road where it joins with the Napi road we struck a placid group of Wild dogs. There was about 12 in total and they were all either sleeping or just laying down.

The markings on these dogs are amazing, they all have there own signature pattern.

Unfortunately my Wild dog photo's are not the best - but I was very happy to have seen them again.

The remainder of the drive to Lower Sabie was pretty quiet due to being midday and it was quite hot, I did see some small parrots that I thought might of been love birds but did not get a photo of them.

 

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Lower Sabie rest camp - a couple of bird pics.

 

The little laughing dove (or is it a namaqua dove?) was very friendly when we arrived.

I love the Red-billed Oxpeckers, I have never seen one without a mammal.

Sorry can anyone identify the last bird in the post? Is it a fork tailed drongo?

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Lower Sabie - Afternoon drive. A few distant dogs and courting cats plus brave Guinea fowls.

 

Our afternoon drive saw us heading South down the H-2 all the way to the S25 where we travelled a few km's up the gravel road and then back up to Lower Sabie on the S28 (which in later days proved to be a very fruitful track for us).

As it was still hot the start of the drive was pretty tame, we saw a nice eagle which I think was a brown snake eagle, can anyone identify this bird for me?

Kudu are one of my favourite antelope and we were greeted by 2 semi mature adults.

The H4-2 is quite overgrown in places but further south you drive the scrub opens up abit. At the start of the S25 there was 3-4 cars stationed along the side of the road, in the distance there was a pack of Wild dogs about 100 metres off into the bush all sleeping, as it was still hot we continued on for a few km's as we got wind of a couple of courting cats. We would be driving back past the dogs later and thinking they might get more active.

 

We finally found them doing the lazy lion thing in the heat, FIL had a great suggestion - It was sundowner time, so we opened a couple of cold beers and sat with the cats for awhile before they got active and moved off - it does not get much better than that.

It was a nice sighting as they were only about 10 metres from us so I practiced abit of close up photography which was fun.

First up a few lady leo shots. Apologies I have added a few.

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Towlersonsafari

wild dogs and then lions! splendid sightings @@Hads

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Lower Sabie afternoon drive cont - This time the Male Leo close ups!

As she got up I think he decided to follow close by his lady friend.

This Panthera Leo was certainly an impressive specimen.

I was too lazy to change the lens and left the 150-600mm lens on, therefore I could not get the whole cat in the piccie.

 

There is something very special about being so close to a cat of this size and power.

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