Here’s a reminder to visitors passing through Nossob camp in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park on the way to any of the camps in Botswana: you’re not entitled to draw water from Nossob!
By Roxanne Reid
Here’s a reminder to visitors passing through Nossob camp in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park on the way to any of the camps in Botswana: you’re not entitled to draw water from Nossob!
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By Roxanne Reid Leopards may not need ID photos for a passport, but a project initiated by Dr Matthew Schurch is determined to identify leopards through photos anyway. At first the focus is on the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and Augrabies Falls National Park. I asked him the how, what and why, and to share some of his ID photos. By Roxanne Reid Summer in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and we were watching the miracle of birth a kilometre or two south of Kamfersboom waterhole on the Auob riverbed. By Roxanne Reid There are so many reasons to love the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in the Northern Cape that the red dunes, star-filled skies, blood-red sunsets and fabulous sightings of big game like lions, leopards, cheetahs and gemsbok don’t even feature in the top 10. Here’s my pick… By Roxanne Reid A leopard sighting in the African bush is one of the most thrilling things that can happen to anyone with half an ounce of wildness in her soul. Seeing car tracks left off-road by some selfish sonofabitch is probably one of the worst. By Roxanne Reid Rumble … cra-a-a-ck! Thunder boomed, drowning out the hum of the aircon in our chalet one hot afternoon at Twee Rivieren in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Then a sizzle of lightning. At the beginning of March the park was still bone dry, the rains already late. Would this electric storm bring the end of the dry spell? By Roxanne Reid We were hot, tired and grumpy. So when the brittle brown landscape suddenly dissolved into a mirage of lush green grass, palm trees, ponds and cascading waters, we hauled a quick left and decided to bunk down for the night and start fresh the next morning. By Roxanne Reid It’s hard not to love meerkats, or suricates, as they’re otherwise known. With their sharp snouts and dark eye patches, they’re attractive little guys. But what I love about them most is that they’re endlessly entertaining. By Roxanne Reid I was miffed. My travel companion had been slow that morning so we were twenty minutes late leaving Twee Rivieren camp in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Twenty minutes can be crucial at daybreak; the difference between spotting sunrise specials like leopard, brown hyena and caracal … and nix, nada, nothing. So the air was thick with tension. By Roxanne Reid This is what I love about the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Even if you come at exactly the same time of year, two years in a row, your experience will be as different as a banana is from a barrel of bugs. Late February/early March 2012 was green-green and festooned with flowers; this year the rains were late and the veld was khaki-coloured and dry, very dry. |
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