Day two of our winter holiday in the Kruger National Park, and today we explored the area between Pretoriuskop and Lower Sabie where we will be spending the night.
It’s the winter holidays in South Africa and we find ourselves back in the Kruger National Park, where tonight we’ll be sleeping in Pretoriuskop Rest Camp.
Early one morning during our recent visit we found a sizable herd of Sable Antelope on the Kniekie Loop in the Mokala National Park. The dominant bull was particularly interested in one cow and we had a front-row seat as he turned on the romance.
Here’s a short video showing the Sable bull courting his mate.
We’ll soon be announcing a very exciting spring-time tour to the Mokala National Park – do keep an eye on DeWetsWild’s facebook page so that you don’t miss out!
No mention of Mokala National Park would be complete without bringing up the amazing diversity of mammals, large and small, that find sanctuary there. Several of them are species rarely encountered in most of our other reserves and it is not for nothing that Mokala’s tagline is “where endangered species roam”.
Come along as we go on a game drive through the Mokala National Park:
We’ll soon be announcing a very exciting spring-time tour to the Mokala National Park – do keep an eye on DeWetsWild’s facebook page so that you don’t miss out!
Almost smack in the middle of the Mokala National Park you will find the Stofdam Hide; an excellent place to stop for a while, stretch your legs and wait for the wildlife to come to you instead of driving around to find them.
This is a little compilation of sightings Hannes and I had one morning at Stofdam while visiting Mokala earlier in June.
We’ll soon be announcing a very exciting spring-time tour to the Mokala National Park – and we’re sure to spend some time at Stofdam on that trip! Do keep an eye on DeWetsWild’s facebook page so that you don’t miss out!
The Mokala National Park has a very healthy population of birds, and even in winter with all the summer migrants having left for warmer parts of the globe Hannes and I still managed to tick 66 species without much effort during our recent 4-night stay.
If you are a bird lover you are in for a treat, because we’ll be sharing even more of Mokala’s bird life tomorrow.
We’ll soon be announcing a very exciting spring-time tour to the Mokala National Park – Do keep an eye on DeWetsWild’s facebook page so that you don’t miss out!
The scenery in Mokala National Park seems purpose-built for a television documentary on Africa, and I might be biased but there’s no continent with more beautiful sunrises and sunsets than ours.
Come take a drive with us through this beautiful national park:
We’ll soon be announcing a very exciting spring-time tour to the Mokala National Park – do keep an eye on DeWetsWild’s facebook page so that you don’t miss out!
This female Pririt Batis was also a regular visitor to Chalet #1 in Mokala National Park’s Lilydale Rest Camp when I visited along with Hannes Rossouw last week, but she was a lot more demure than the Chestnut-vented Warbler I showed you two days ago.
We’ll soon be announcing a very exciting spring-time tour to the Mokala National Park – do keep an eye on DeWetsWild’s facebook page so that you don’t miss out!
On the last night of our visit to Mokala National Park last week I found this Bibron’s Thick-toed Gecko on the floor of the bathroom in Lilydale Rest Camp’s Chalet #1. I didn’t question it about its intentions but I did carry it outside to more suitable habitat. The towel was a very necessary precaution; she’s a biter!
We’ll soon be announcing a very exciting spring-time tour to the Mokala National Park – do keep an eye on DeWetsWild’s facebook page so that you don’t miss out!
This little Chestnut-Vented Warbler came to welcome us to Lilydale’s Chalet 1 immediately on our arrival – Hannes and I hadn’t even unpacked the car yet! Invariably it would appear in a flash every time we stepped outside. So habituated was it that it would peck crumbs from beneath our hands where we sat eating sandwiches on the deck outside the chalet, offering wonderful opportunities for up-close views of a bird species that is notoriously frustrating to photograph because it never sits still!
We’ll soon be announcing a very exciting spring-time tour to the Mokala National Park – do keep an eye on DeWetsWild’s facebook page so that you don’t miss out!
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