Etosha-Olifantsrus
On Monday, July 2 I started to traverse the tracks into Etosha
looking for large deer while going towards the water points where
the wild animals gather to water themselves. Of course much
antelopes and zebras of all species as well as birds surprised in
their mountings between the shrubs. And finally a giraffe, but alas
for this first day no lion, leopard or cheetah, to follow. The loop
of the trace on the map is not closed in south-west by an
inopportune GPS disconnection consequence of the rough track. The
red squares are the visited water supply points.
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The GPS road tracklog
from Olifantsrus to Okaukeujo & back
from 2018/07/03 to 2018/07/03
On Tuesday, July 3 I traversed the track from Olifantsrus to
Okaukuejo and back by visiting the water supply points in search of
large mammals, that nenni, neither elephant, nor predator, cheetah,
lion, leopard, certainly fed with the slender and prolific
springboks! On the other hand the surface quality of the track is
mainly badly corrugated making the progression slow and painful on
the 278 km. At the bivouac the temperature is 2°C at daybreak and
36°C at the zenith.
I spent the day of July 4th at the bivouac of Olifantsrus to prepare
the continuation of the journey in Namibia.
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The GPS road tracklog
From Okaukeujo to Namutoni
from 2018/07/05 to 2018/07/06
Etosha-Namutoni
On Thursday, June 6 I again traversed the track from Olifantsrus to
Okaukeujo then I continued up to Namutoni where I had reserved a
camp-site available for two days. Of course on the way I visited the
water points to track not only the herbivores, which are plethora,
but especially the carnivores, which I still do not see. I arrived
at my bivouac at the end of the afternoon tired by 316 km of track
without leaving the vehicle by safety according to the regulation of
the park. There are enclosures of picnic with toilets.
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The GPS road tarcklog
around Namutoni
from 2018/07/06 from 2018/07/06
On Friday, June 6 I traversed tracks around Fisher's Pan as well as
two others but without successes to see the large predators which
are several thousands. But certainly that the management of Etosha
Park did not make release for the tourists present in the park!
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The GPS road tracklog
of Game Drive
from 2018/07/07 to 2018/07/07
On Saturday, June 7 disappointed not to have seen the big cats I
bought a Game Drive from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. to track the large
carnivores. During the end of the night the guide of the 4x4 used a
red light headlight in search of animals; only zebras wandering on
the track were found. Then at sunrise the game drive continued on
neighborhood tracks. Finally around 8:30 we discovered a lion
wallowed in grass probably fed of a springbok whose herd grazed not
far. In the opened 4x4 with a wind by 8°C the cold was sharp. Happy
to have seen a lion I returned in my truck to heat me by taking a
very hot tea.
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Le tracé GPS de la route
de Namutoni au water point camp
du 2018/07/08 au 2018/07/08
On Sunday, June 9 I traversed the track towards Andoni Plain while
forking on the right & on the left to visit water-points. I was
lucky to meet a solitary rhinoceros crossing the track without
dealing with me, and it is so much better. Of course I would have
liked to see at least an elephant, a leopard and a cheetah.
Admittedly I had seen them previously. I made approximately 800 km
of tracks at low speed, 20 km/h, in the park of Etosha in 6 days. I
saw many exceptional animals. But my localization in the two camps
in extreme west and east did not support an optimal visit. It had
been necessary to also bivouac in the two median camps. For that it
is necessary to take reservations very in advance. I was very lucky
to see a lion and a rhinoceros. I found a bivouac at an artesian
well 63 km away in the North-West from Namutoni out of park little
before Omuthiya.
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