Overnighting in the Tankwa Karoo

[Mel]

The little brown job looks like a Karoo scrub robin to me.

Melanistic springbok Never seen before.

Alhtough... it does look a bit like a cross-breed between a springbok and a bontebok or a blesbok.

[leachy]

[nan]

seems to be very nice
near Ceres... so near Witzenberg too
nice bungalow... a little bit lost
love the Rock Martins and the little ones
and the hight flat mountain, must be interesting fauna there
here they are melanistic... elsewhere leucistic
love too the Lark, and Zebra... and... and...

[leachy]

thanks

toko and richprins (rose') and mel and nan....

[okie]

Aaahhh leachy The Tanqua is one of my favourite places where I can just sit and listen , listen to silence , and watch timelessness go by

[leachy]

yes indeed okie.. it is very tranquil !!!!!!!

[Richprins]

Black springbok are actively bred by game farmers, Mello! Not that uncommon, and hunters pay extra...don't know if they think it's a new species?

You get black impala too!

Dunno about black steenbok!


(Looks like the antelope get burnt by the heat there!)

[Tina]

wonderful pictures

[Flutterby]

Thanks for this leachy!! Looks so remote and untouched!

Interesting pics of the melanistic bokkies.

[leachy]

i popped into the tankwa again during my vacation

to hook up with my friends from riebeek kasteel

and to contemplate my navel...

quite a bit of activity at the waterhole





bryan habana also popped around for a drink



karoo bossies stretching as far as the eye can see

with a serious fire in the distance

that had been going for three days



sunset..



the darkest night of the month

reveals the stars in all their glory..