Flavour of the Month March 2014: Gardenia Hide and S-119

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Flavour of the Month March 2014: Gardenia Hide and S-119

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Hello!

fc is nowhere to be found regarding nominating this month, so I will do it! -O-




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This hide and road are sometimes not regularly visited, but regularly provide great sightings! \O


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Flavour of the Month March 2014: Gardenia Hide and S-119

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Map: Gardenia Hide & S119

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Richprins wrote:
This hide and road are sometimes not regularly visited, but regularly provide great sightings! \O
Sure does, and the S119 has a beautiful Jackalberry tree :-)

Saw my first wild dogs on this road circa 1984


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This is what there was to be seen on my last visit in August :-)

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Sjoe, you are old, Duke! :-0 \O

Thanks, Toko! 0/0

Saw my 5th leopard there, I think...circa 1989... =O:

Actually a funny story! There are quite a few viewpoints south of the hide...and us students stopped in the middle of nowhere, and had our morning coffee and rusks, after having left camp at gate opening while camping! =O: =O: =O:

How times have changed! :-0

There is quite a prominent Marula tree on the other bank...it was still quite leafy in winter...

And lo and behold a leopard jumped out of it, causing consternation in the gelandewagen! \O


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Our first wild dog sighting in Kruger - scanned photo

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:shock:

A wounded one!

Not a snare? Snares normally lower down the neck?

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(You know the best way of scanning, imo, is to take a digital camera pic of the photo using the macro function? Almost faultless! \O )


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This is my only pic of the S119 leading on to the s25. Being new in Kruger I didn't know I could travel to the hide and back - it was only the S25 that was closed. :-(

I will certainly do that road at the end of April.

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From the hide:


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