** Africam - Book (3)

940 gallons  so far in  2 days-

till 7.00 african time

sept 12   NK

RANGER  FILLS  PAN

The tank holds about 750 litres of water. Using a normal garden hose it takes about 20 minutes to fill up and 5 minutes to empty

load   2  -    380 gallons so far

1400 litres

sept  11

TE Spur Winged Goose

tembe sept 11

first leopard i have seen on cam

Lion ( Panthera leo ) TE

information from a ranger at  TEMBE

sept 11

SLIDE-ON SKID UNIT “BAKKIE SAKKIE"

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now i see a new pump in the truck

will have to get   the name of it

HOWZIT  -    couple of questions on the   **  FIRE KING  **

WATER PUMP -   how many gallons ( or litres) does

the tank hold 800 liters ( 211 gallon) - how  long does it take to

empty the tank 25-35 minutes depends on at what strengh you spraw the water and how long to fill the tank with water 1 minutes

and how long is the fire hose 150 meters

and does each lodge in your area have a ( fire truck set up

like yours ) there is only one lodge out of the 7 that doesn't have a Fire King.

thank you

barry

Karin van der Merwe We are using the lodges' pick up truck that we use to take staff out and collect supplies from town sometimes.

The tank holds about 750 litres of water. Using a normal garden hose it takes about 20 minutes to fill up and 5 minutes to empty

. In case of emergency we can fill it in about 5 minutes.

Peter filled the pan with about 3 000litres today

800 gallons -

sept 09

Double-banded Sandgrouse Pterocles bicinctus

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sept 06  buffalo at nk pan  150  says the ranger

sept 07  tembe  4 lions at pan

TEMBE

as of  january  2011

The lions, which now number between 36 and 40,

Lion Monitoring
Monitoring occurs daily using Radio Telemetry methods.

male  with a -    female collard

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The Lion Monitor (local community member) is required to:
• “Sweep” the main camp daily (using the radio receiver set to unique collar frequency) to determine the presence of lions due to the related danger to staff and Lodge guests;

“Sweep” the swamp reed beds in the East of the park to establish if lions are present in order to allow local communities access to the swamps to harvest reeds;

Patrol the fence line to monitor activity;

Record the movement and behaviour of the prides;

Make positive contact with every lion at least once a week.

SEPT 06

NKORHO SAFARIE JEE-

150 BUFFALO THE LODGE SAID

Buffalo ( Syncerus caffer  )

sept 05

Leopard ( Panthera pardus  ) nk

MVULA

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sept  03   nk

A group of rhinos is sometimes called a “crash

The word rhinoceros comes from the Greek rhino (nose)

and ceros (horn).

Wheel Barrow Cam

,the first mobile camera africam had,

when life and limb was risked to move the

wheel barrow mounted camera

CAMBELL SCOTT WOULD WHEEL IT OUT EACH DAY

hyenas ate cable  baboons knocked it over.

The first cam  mounted on a tree had problems

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AT  DJUMA

We called on the Bush Lodge staff at all hours of the day to remedy disasters. Generally, baboons were the culprits.

They just loved the camera, maybe because - while they hung over the lens from its housing, having used the cables as a convenient ladder to and from their new-found pastime - their faces were reflected back at them from the glass-front of the weatherproof housing that protected the camera.

After a few of such episodes, we tangled barbed wire around the tree trunk that held the cam, and the baboons abandoned their new pastime.

We also had elephants knocking over the tree that carried the flood-light, which had to be moved to the “camera’s tree” amongst the barbed wire. Then the elephants unearthed the water pipe which was used to fill the pan.

Before we could rebury it hyenas moved in and chomped huge chunks out of it.