16 April 2012
Metsi
Photo: Jean Francois Poudron
We are now in April and the rainy season seems to have finished with a spectacular thunderstorm at the end of March. Totalled up,the rainfall for the season was about average, despite the floods in January. The dams are still holding water well and should see us and the animals through to the next rainy season at the end of the year. The impala rutting season has begun and the sounds of the rams snorting and grunting are already a part of the constant background music of the bush...
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20 March 2012
The New Regime
Photo: Louis Marais
A sad and emotional day today! The Mapogo Coalition appears to have been vanquished by the New Southern Coalition of 4 male lions. Radio chatter started early this morning with tracks indicating that the 2 different coalitions were on a crash course to come into contact with each other in the south western sections of the reserve.
This is eventually where they were found, the 4 younger stronger Southern Males circling the already wounded Short Maned Male ( Mr. T ) from t...
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15 March 2012
Sand River in Flood
Photo: Rudi Hulshof
The New Year certainly started with a bang, then a trickle, followed by a gurgle, and eventually a torrent of water flowing, not only from the skies, but also in all the streams, rivers, and even over the plain old ground surface.
Wednesday the 18th of January will go down in history as a day that the Sabi Sand Game Reserve flooded. Rivers rose to levels higher than those recorded in the devastating floods of 2000, but fortunately the flow was not sustained, as it was ju...
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