CAMPFIRE CHIT CHAT SATURDAY APRIL 26 2008

Saturday in S.A.!  Good Morning Africammers!

Very pretty picture!!

bokkie at ep

Some special coffee ( I shop where ALF shops)

Well done Sonya! Such a pretty pic too. 

I will be back in a little bit....Going to feed the family

Hey again chaps, hyenas sound noisy tonight

Gosh, that sounded close.  Can anyone tell me which cam that was on?  (I have both up.)

I think there's skullduggery afoot. Zebs alarm call.

Hi, I heard zebs and hyena at NK and sound of branches snapping. More alarm calls now.

Lots of running zebs around, sounds like you can hear the sound of hooves. Wonder if the cats are in the vicinity still.

Thanks.  My sound is actually very poor.  I can barely make out the odd night bird sound, and no branches snapping, and just a drone on EP.   I can't believe how low the water is at NK.  Isn't it lower than usual? 

  HELLO -    AFRICAM  ??   yes  she did a good  job starting

the new  day   and ill tell  her to read contract -     lol

Okanagan Sunshinev wrote:

Thanks.  My sound is actually very poor.  I can barely make out the odd night bird sound, and no branches snapping, and just a drone on EP.   I can't believe how low the water is at NK.  Isn't it lower than usual? 

if the water  gets real  low  the lodge  pumps in more water

you can sometimes  here the pump running  when they do it

Okanagan Sunshinev wrote:

Thanks.  My sound is actually very poor.  I can barely make out the odd night bird sound, and no branches snapping, and just a drone on EP.   I can't believe how low the water is at NK.  Isn't it lower than usual? 

Blame the ellies for that

Dont you just wish they had a cam just beyond those trees. Wow, what was that? Wildie??

Good day Barry

This is the Power and fibre optic cable for the camera that runs from the lodge. The Wildebeest loved rolling in the sand and digging up the cable so we had to brush pack the holes to get them to stop as not to damage the cable.

Pump for the pan runs off an old Lister motor that is what you hear when we start the pump, the boreholes for the lodge is west of the pan and runs on electic pumps.

In winter you will start seeing the paths to the pan, they are like veins congregating towards the pan.

Have a great day

Ernst

Nite folks, I'm fading fast, hope I reach my bed on time.

Barry, this lurker has been watching for almost two years, and I don't think I ever recall seeing the water this low.  (During that time, I was even luckey enough to be watching when the ellie tried to pull the hose out of the ground....actually several times.)  

Come to think about it, I haven't heard the pump going for quite a while.  Have you?

What in the heck is that??

cerinthe wrote:

Nite folks, I'm fading fast, hope I reach my bed on time.

nite  cerinthe   have a good trip 

Hello world!!

I'm still around for the most part, flu and this probate crap doesn't help though. 

Lion roar in distance at NK and wildie alarm I think very close by.

oh no, my screen just died

Or is it babs? whatever it is something is skitting them tonight.

sorry, false alarm...its back!  Yay!  Just in time to hear "it" make a noise again!  And I think I can hear some very nervous zebes out there, as well

yes  i have seen it this  low  and yes i heard the pupm less than 

a week ago

i put  all that type of info  in the   AFRICAM BOOK ( 3)

ITS  FREE READING  LOL

  THE NKORHO PAN IS    45 FT X 25 FT

Water Level: The Nkorho pan is in fact a natural waterhole. So of course its water level rises and falls depending on the rains and what animals are drinking from it. It also contains an underwater pump that is used to artificially supplement its water level in extreme situations. Sometimes you can even hear the pump through the Africam audio. A good example of a time to use this pump would be after a large herd of Buffalo stops by for a drink.

                          (true story )

small pond     after a good   rain at NKORHO   to the right of the PAN

ELEPHANT DRINKS FROM THE   NKORHO-MINI-PAN

ellies at ep

and for those that dont know   the tree across from the  nkorho pan

has two  microphones   one on left side and the other on the right side

Just caught a little un high tailing it out of EP, thanks for the call Cowboy