A quick breakaway to Loskop

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We spent the past weekend with good friends in and around the Loskop Dam Nature Reserve, taking in the peaceful atmosphere, spectacular scenery and diverse wildlife. Here’s a gallery showing some of what we saw and experienced – if you’d like to know more about Loskop Dam and the general area, have a read here.

On the trail to the waterfall at Waterfall Safari Lodge
On the trail to the waterfall at Waterfall Safari Lodge
On the trail to the waterfall at Waterfall Safari Lodge
On the trail to the waterfall at Waterfall Safari Lodge
On the trail to the waterfall at Waterfall Safari Lodge
On the trail to the waterfall at Waterfall Safari Lodge
Waterfall at Waterfall Safari Lodge
Waterfall at Waterfall Safari Lodge
On the trail to the waterfall at Waterfall Safari Lodge
On the trail to the waterfall at Waterfall Safari Lodge
View from Waterfall Safari Lodge
Garden Commodore (wet season colouration)
Natal Acraea
Guinea-fowl Butterfly
Foxy Emperor
Spotted Joker
Mixed bag of butterflies at a mud puddle
Poisonous Koppie Foam Grasshopper
Common Stick Grasshopper camouflage
Elegant Grasshopper nymphs
Golden Orb Web Spider – the female is considerably larger than the male
Red Toad at the Waterfall Safari Lodge
Arrow-marked Babbler
Male Red-backed Shrike
Woodland Kingfisher
Bushbuck ram
Bushbuck ewe
Warthog
Warthog
Kudu
Kudu
Waterbuck ewe
Waterbuck bull
Impala ram
Impala lamb
Impala lamb
Giraffe
Vervet monkey
Loskop scenery
Loskop scenery
Loskop scenery
Lily Dam Hide in Loskop Dam Nature Reserve
Lily Dam Hide in Loskop Dam Nature Reserve

22 thoughts on “A quick breakaway to Loskop”

  2. scrapydo2.wordpress.com

    Ai nou het jy weer lekker terug gevat na 1970 toe ons met skool daar langs die dam gekamp het vir n week. Ek het ook naweke toe ek “gevry” het daarlangs gery Secunda toe en terug vanaf Potgietersrus. Sondag aand laat met vensters wyd oop gery as ek so daar langs dam gery het om die heerlike lug in te neem!

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    1. de Wets Wild Post author

      Indeed, the central, eastern and northern parts of the country have received good rains, AJ. But the western and southern regions are still in the drought’s firm grip…

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  5. Joanne Sisco

    I love the first photo featured at the top. It looks like you caught him landing from a leap?
    … and of course, the wonderful Kingfishers always make me smile with their very large beaks compared to their body 🙂

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