Flavour of the Month September 2015 :S47 - Mingerhout Loop

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Pumbaa wrote: Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:07 pm There were a couple of younger ones in between

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which soon started to squabble with each other – Also a great sighting for us and our feathered friends were today already extreme good to us.

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We somehow made it finally to the look out point at Mingerhout dam but as already expected the view was very limited due to the dense vegetation and compared to the just driven loops up to that point the flood did not come so we did not spent much time here and turned around as it was still a long drive back to Olifants.

So whilst driving slowly back and daydreaming we echoed suddenly eye in eye with a grey giant in form of a massive dagga boy with a blade of grass between his teeth!

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Out of nowhere the theme melody of the movie “Once Upon a Time in the West” came to my mind and I was reminded of the duell between Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson – Scary!

Gladly our grey friend got soon bored in eying us and trotted off into the bushes.

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On the way back we also realized that the juvenile bateleur was still busy with its lunch and we once again had to cross the slippery mud part and soon after we had solid ground under our tyres again another dagga boy popped out of the bushes high above and slipped more or less agile through the deep mud down into the river bed.

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It looked like the same we met earlier and here he obviously was in buffaloes Paradise!

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Also our fish eagle couple was still sitting the at the place overlooking the river and we could not but had to stop once again.

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Male Leopard on the move
on the road and then disappeared into the riverbed
S47, 4.4 km from the H1-6
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Flavour of the month - Nov/Dec 2018: S132 and Letaba River Road

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Ok I was asked to do the Flavour of the month for Nov/Dec 2018 :-)

First up S47

Hippos chilling
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Sunbathing
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Mom and baby
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Re: Flavour of the month - Nov/Dec 2018: S132,S131, Letaba river rd and S47

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Interesting road indeed \O

Have only driven it once


Next trip to the bush??

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Some 2015 BluTuna pics:

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3 cheetahs on the move
S47, about 25km W of H1-6
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