Wednesday, 29th May After 8pm last night a gunshot rings out close by and I speculate that the ranger is dealing with a troublesome hyena. However, this morning we are told that they were firing off a round so as…
Monday, 27th May Road options are limited at Bergendal so today we are again down the S110 tarred road and again having coffee on the Matjulu Bridge on the H3. To our right the sun rises through the trees………… To…
Saturday, 25th May It is heavily overcast as we take off from the camp gates at 6am down the tarred S110 to the H3. We sit on the Matjulu bridge for our customary coffee but the heavy day traffic from…
Thursday, 23rd May The sun rises through a hazy sky as we sip coffee on the high level bridge over the Sabie River. Thereafter we drift down the S30 Salietjie road which is particularly beautiful this morning, bathed in golden…
Tuesday, 21st May Chris and Renette are with us on a flying visit – in more ways than one. Today they must be at the Skukuza airport at 10.20am, so in order to broaden their Kruger experience – Lake Panic…
Sunday, 19th May Yesterday afternoon after we duly collect Chris and Renette Denny from the airport and after they have settled into their chalet, we go to enjoy coffee atop the domed koppie that is Granokop – some 15Km west…
Friday, 17th May I omitted last night to tell you that returning to camp we came across two cheetah near the gates but in such poor light that I couldn’t photograph them. Word has it in the campsite that the…
Wednesday, 15th May Unusually, there is a little cloud in the sky this morning as we head north up the tar towards the S90 gravel road heading east towards Gudzani. There are also the odd mist patches in the hollows…
Tuesday, 14th May After bidding farewell to Roley and Verona, Renette and I wisely avoid the ‘lion kill’ Sweni S126 road and rather move down the Nwanetsi S100 river road. With most of the early morning traffic diverted to Sweni,…
Sunday, 12th May The nights are now chilly and today dawns misty as we make our way down the S100 Nwanetsi river road. We really crawl down this lovely road with very few other cars about. Verona spots a Lizard…
Saturday, 11th May Roley and Verona (Renette’s cousin) have joined us from Howick and this morning the four of us set off along the Sweni S126 road with a partly cloudy sky. We enjoy the usual sights and have coffee…
Thursday, 9th May Today we head north along the main road and then after 7Km’s, cut across east along the S90 “Old Main Road”. The lily covered pond at Mavumbye is fast shrinking and I fear that by October it…
Sunday, 5th May Dear bloggers, I apologise for the sudden break in my daily reports. I had to return home to Ballito rather unexpectedly to tend to a number of matters but returned to Satara this afternoon, Wednesday, 8th May.…
Saturday, 4th May Another clear May day although it is forecast to be a pre-frontal 35 degree hotty. Of course we head straight for our favourite Sweni Road S126 and despite the camp being full, no one at all follows…
Thursday, 2nd May A thick mist greets the day so I leave Sunset Dam and continue to Nwatimhiri S21. It does not take long for the rising sun to burn away the mist leaving the most beautiful meander along this,…
Wednesday, 1st May Today breaks bright, clear and still – perfect for Sunset Dam. So at 6.18am I am set up and my two targets are already perched in the large dead tree to the right. I would dearly like…
Tuesday, 30th April Some cloud is about over the eastern horizon so I abandon my plans to stay at Sunset Dam and again set out for the beautiful Salietjie S30 road. Herewith some early morning photographs of the road as…
Sunday, 28th April After my short time in Jo’burg, I thankfully leave at 5am this morning before the traffic gets going – leaving Renette behind with Cheryl and Basil Jones. The contrast between the solitude of Kruger and the helter-skelter…
Thursday, 25th April We decide that it would be best for Callum’s sake to redo the Salietjie (S30) rather than the longer Nwatimhiri S21 road. So in heavily cloudy and misty conditions, we set out again across the river. Little…
Tuesday, 23rd April Out early across the dam bridge, we are heading for Salietjie S30 along the S128. The weather is beautifully autumnal – partly cloudy with mist patches. What a pleasure to be free of those ‘convoys’ of cars…