Flavour of the Month Oct 2015 - S92/S91- Balule Loops

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Having two months' time it is all right, especially if you start with some kind of anticipations like maps, Camp where you are staying etc. \O

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Some pics from January:

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Looks like a prime rabbit area! :shock:

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flying cheetah wrote: Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:14 pm

It took a while before I saw my first Scrub Hare during the day but once the spell was broken I saw at least one every visit. The best sighting of my latest trip was one early morning between Olifants and the Balule bridge (S92) when I saw these two beauties playing on the road. Finally they were chased into the bush by a Hyena O-/

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One of the regulars at Balule :-0
It seems as though their numbers have increased since my previous visit ;-)
At one stage there were five of them in one spot :yes:


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Scallywag! lol


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Looks like a grand fence there now! :-0


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This is one of my fave roads in Kruger.
Usually see plenty of Elephants along here.


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From a 2014 Heksie report:
Heksie wrote: Tue Feb 18, 2014 8:57 pm It was time to head back to camp and the river-dirtroad-detour was taken aka S92/S91. It is a beautiful road with some great treasures. I’ve had a special sighting almost every time I’ve driven this road and the view is spectacular.
African Hawk eagle

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I also saw my first bee eaters for the trip. A white-fronted bee eater

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I did every single loop on this road whilst Wendy drove straight and as I rounded a corner I saw her excitedly gesturing for me to come forward. Right next to her was this…

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Again, the bliss of driving dirt roads, we were only 3 cars and then came one more, we sat and chilled and enjoyed them for 20 minutes. The one lioness next to me saw impala on the other side of the road, stood up and started stalking them. Just as she crossed the road the stupidus shark car came speeding past us and stopped right in the view of Wendy. She called through her window that he should move forward as he is in her view, he looked at her and then winded up his window! Eish if I knew voodoo that day then someone would’ve been in trouble. Another lioness decided it was time to cross the road so Wendy moved forward to get a better view. I moved and parked in front of her so we both had great visual. They crossed the road right beside us…

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We sat with them over an hour and left them with the 4 cars. Great not being in a roadblock, and not feeling fussed at a sighting. The road back was very quiet with some ellies, a rhino, general game and a steenbokkie

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