Flavour of the Month April 2012 & 2014 S36/Vutome Road (S33) & Dam/H1-3/S125

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Flavour of the Month April 2012 & 2014 S36/Vutome Road (S33) & Dam/H1-3/S125

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Peter Betts is away on business and asked me to do this month!

Vutome Road (S33) and Dam is it for April!


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Vutome Road (S33) and Dam

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The Dam:





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And the road, 19km long, from yellow to yellow, with the dam in red:




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Vutome Road (S33) and Dam


This is one of my favourite areas, and has provided many hours of enjoyment!



The Dam:


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The road, a bit West:




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I Sat here in the shade for 8 hours on 9 Aug 2010 - 3 leopard sightings.

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This one ambled up spent 10 minutes 5metres in front of the car , his mate was shy and stayed on the fringes of the vegetation to the left of the dam wall.


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Vutomi Dam, October 2010


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Thanks, Flutts!

Serval's spot is under a tree on the dam wall....one of the few remaining shady dam lookouts in the Park.

From the same spot, Oct 2009, I think?




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The shade is really good!


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Just be careful the road is not in the best condition - our whole window fell out on this road at the end of January and we also (unbeknown to us at the time) damaged the wall of our tyre so badly that we had to buy a new one! I doubt it has been graded since then as that seems the order of the day in KNP at the moment - you simply put up a sign at the entrance to a road about needing rain to grade and one takes ones chances as the grading just never happens!


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One of the very few dams in Kruger I have got something to contribute too.

Also in October 2009 - similar to RP's shots.
But if you're not a girl, RP, I swear it was on a different day.

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Hey, Mel

Probably the same animals, but different day! (The lion were mating, so they often hang around the same spot for days!)




Also some pics...lots to come:

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