Flavour of the Month Dec 2015 - S26 Bume Road/S102 Loop & Mpondo Dam

[Richprins]

Now you mention it, nana, also saw WD on the Bume road a decade ago...only one Kruger sighting ever since!

[Mel]

Never been that far north on my two ( ) Kruger trips, but would like to get more impressions

[Richprins]

It's right down South, Mello?

[Mel]

True! I confused Biyamiti with Shimuwini

[Richprins]

You must come to Kruger more...I'll go and show you!

[Richprins]

Sat at Mpondo Dam for a whole day around 1997...


Saw a lone sable bull!

And this in the car park...








A scan of a film pic!


Wonder where Fattie has disappeared to? He must nominate someone to do the February/March flavour...

[Richprins]

A scan from CUSTOS magazine in the 1980's, I think...rangers rescuing a stuck impala in the dry season!

[Richprins]

A story by aat: (2014)


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South….
We always like to visit Mpondo dam. It’s a nice place and sometimes you are lucky and sometimes there is nothing to see.
From Crocodile Bridge following some small roads and then we arrived and parked the car, stopped the engine and looking around. Empty ! Just a few birds. A bit thirsty so let’s drink something.
Less then five minutes later some movement at the other side. Mhhhhh how nice , a few elephants came over the hill for a drink…..
A few ????

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watching the elephants coming to the dam, not a few , not 10 and not 20 and not 30…

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Still coming, counting was difficult but I tried to get an impression and finally there were about 100 elephants.

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First ellies already disppearing in the bush while others were still arriving.
What a moment… no wind so a nice reflection on the water . It’s difficult to show on photos what you see with scenes like this one. As said, no wind, quiet and elephants did not make any noise. Thinking about it, we have seen this kind of elephant “meetings” before but over the years just a few. With a last shot of them, before they all moved on

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[Flutterby]

Amazing.

[Richprins]

From a 2012 JustN@ture report:

We took the S114 and H5 as we decided to have breakfast at Mpondo dam, on route we saw a young lone female kudu and a Dark chanting goshawk








The dam was quiet other than the Woolly Necked stork and crocs on the bank, we also had this Yellow horn bill who came and sat in the tree next to us, swear people feed these animals otherwise they would not pitch up at the cars when they stop.










Behind the dam wall we spotted a Green Backed heron


Burchell’s Coucal


Red and Blue Dragonfly

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