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Flavour of the month November 2013 - S99 Mahonie Loop
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Pretoriuskop
Satara
Shingwedzi
20-30 Dec 2014
Satara
Shingwedzi
20-30 Dec 2014
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Some more lovely sightings on this loop...
Bushbuck
Impala
Squirrel
Last, but not the least
Bushbuck
Impala
Squirrel
Last, but not the least
Pretoriuskop
Satara
Shingwedzi
20-30 Dec 2014
Satara
Shingwedzi
20-30 Dec 2014
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Great, Amoli!
Wonder what the squirrel is eating!
Interestingly, the road is named after the Pod Mahogany tree, "Peulmahonie" in Afrikaans!
It is probably the road with the most diverse tree sighting opportunities in Kruger, and interestingly also with the highest annual rainfall average over the decades, vying with Pretoriuskop loops...
Fascinatingly, one may think that Pretoriuskop lies further West than this road, but Mahonie is the Westernmost loop in Kruger?
So a lot of strange parallels with PK, including the fact that one may find Silver Terminalia trees on the loop...abundant at PK!
(And that PK loops was a previous flavour of the month!)
There is also an opportunity to see Lebombo Ironwood...a rare type that covers the tops of the hills around there, looking a bit like a pine forest!
Wonder what the squirrel is eating!
Interestingly, the road is named after the Pod Mahogany tree, "Peulmahonie" in Afrikaans!
It is probably the road with the most diverse tree sighting opportunities in Kruger, and interestingly also with the highest annual rainfall average over the decades, vying with Pretoriuskop loops...
Fascinatingly, one may think that Pretoriuskop lies further West than this road, but Mahonie is the Westernmost loop in Kruger?
So a lot of strange parallels with PK, including the fact that one may find Silver Terminalia trees on the loop...abundant at PK!
(And that PK loops was a previous flavour of the month!)
There is also an opportunity to see Lebombo Ironwood...a rare type that covers the tops of the hills around there, looking a bit like a pine forest!
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Yellow-billed Oxpecker
having a bath
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Green Wood-Hoopoe/Irrisor moqueur
Brown-hooded Kingfisher/Martin chasseur à tête brune
Crested Francolin/Francolin huppé
Brown-hooded Kingfisher/Martin chasseur à tête brune
Crested Francolin/Francolin huppé
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Re: Flavour of the month NOVEMBER 2013 - S99 Mahonie Loop
Leachy , I see both of us love that tree
Enough is enough
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Thanks, leachy and okie!
I think that tree is either the Pod Mahogany or Bastard Marula...
leachy's first pic is of the Matukwala stream, I think...these days a perennial one along the Western stretch of the loop with a long lush valley, including the now-defunct Matukwala Dam, where I/we saw lions once!
The second is of the Maritubi Dam area, just behind the hill from Punda Camp, also defunct but also now virtually perennial!
Witsand on the Northern Stretch and Coetzer at the beginning of the Southern stretch are two defunct old windmills, as far as I know. So no official water points along the loop any more?
I think that tree is either the Pod Mahogany or Bastard Marula...
leachy's first pic is of the Matukwala stream, I think...these days a perennial one along the Western stretch of the loop with a long lush valley, including the now-defunct Matukwala Dam, where I/we saw lions once!
The second is of the Maritubi Dam area, just behind the hill from Punda Camp, also defunct but also now virtually perennial!
Witsand on the Northern Stretch and Coetzer at the beginning of the Southern stretch are two defunct old windmills, as far as I know. So no official water points along the loop any more?
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Coetzer
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Ja, nana! It's dry and overgrown! The animals must now go to Punda Camp waterhole/hide in the background, which sort of defeats the object of breaking down waterpoints!
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