Re: Olifants Rest Camp

Post by **Toko** » Sat May 19, 2012 7:20 pm

What is interesting to see in the vicinity of Olifants Rest Camp?

This is a short overview of AW Flavours of the Month in the Olifants Rest Camp:

Bangu Windmill S90 viewtopic.php?f=79&t=580
Nsemani Dam H7 viewtopic.php?f=79&t=535
S39 Timbavati Road & Timbavati Picnic Spot viewtopic.php?f=79&t=1566
S90 Old Main Road viewtopic.php?f=263&t=3191
H1-4 (Satara - Olifants) viewtopic.php?f=263&t=4652

Post by **Richprins** » Wed May 23, 2012 6:57 pm

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Olifants is a "must" camp to visit, at least once in a lifetime!

- Incomparable view!!!!

- Good predator sightings, especially southward

- Good general game

- Stunning accomodation on the perimiter

- Sufficient road network

On the down side:

- A bit pricey?

- No campsite

- Few rare antelope

- Limited availability

- Too far North re. accessability

What to look for:

Elephant, hyena

Sycamore Fig

Goliath heron, yellow-billed kite.

Post by **Dewi** » Wed May 23, 2012 6:58 pm

As RP says, a must visit camp.

Situated high up on the cliff above the river.

The views are spectacular.

And not too far down the road is Makaringa Lookout.

Post by **Dzombo** » Wed May 23, 2012 6:59 pm

I love Olifants.

It is my all time fave camp in Kruger. Or any game reserve for that matter.

Nothing nicer than sitting on the stoep of the bungalow in the gathering gloom of an evening, the braai just started, a beer in your hand. The sound of the river and the hippo down below......heaven.

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Post by **Dzombo** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 11:25 am

Another view from the same spot.
This one at about mid-day.
And the water was a lot lower

Taken August 2004.

Post by **Richprins** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 4:05 pm

Strangely, this is the camp I have found Wild Dog the nearest to...within sight of the gate!

Also my first Nyala and Sharpe's Grysbok ever very near camp! $O\/$

And my favourite Kruger sighting ever, watching a horizon-to-horizon thunderstorm develop from the viewing area, front-lit by the setting sun, with continuous lightning, and I mean continuous...all along the storm front! Remarkable!

Post by **Dzombo** » Fri Jun 29, 2012 11:11 am

="Richprins"
Also my first Nyala and Sharpe's Grysbok ever very near camp! $O\/$

Richprins,
Are Grysbok found this far south?

I thought they were only in the Punda area?

Post by **Dewi** » Fri Jun 29, 2012 11:52 am

Dzombo, Sharpe's Grysbok are at the Southern edge of their usual range in Kruger here, apart from along a narrow strip down the border with Moz to the South of the park (Lebombo?). North of here, they are found all over to the Westtern side, but are absent in the open shrub savanna to the east until you get up to the very far North where their range moves East to the border again.

(I think I'd be quicker drawing a map

).

Post by **Dzombo** » Fri Jun 29, 2012 12:24 pm

Dewi wrote:Dzombo, Sharpe's Grysbok are at the Southern edge of their usual range in Kruger here, apart from along a narrow strip down the border with Moz to the South of the park (Lebombo?). North of here, they are found all over to the Westtern side, but are absent in the open shrub savanna to the east until you get up to the very far North where their range moves East to the border again.

(I think I'd be quicker drawing a map ).

So which regions are best to see them??
I mean around which camps??

Post by **Dewi** » Fri Jun 29, 2012 12:29 pm

I've seen them between Shingwedzi and Red Rocks, The Kanniedood Dam road and around the Punda Maria area. The regulars to Kruger will probably be better able to narrow it down even better than I have for you.