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Weather and seasonal data:
Summer months (October > April) are hot with temperatures having an average daily maximum of 29ºC and an average minimum of 19ºC at night. Temperatures can soar to 38ºC, but this heat is usually relieved by late afternoon rain which comes in the form of thunder showers. We are in a summer rainfall area.
Winter months (April > October) are the dry season. Clear blue skies dominate however temperatures can fall from the midday norm of mid 20ºC's, to overnight lows of just a few degrees C.
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Summer
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Winter
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Average temperature:
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22.6 ºC
70 ºF
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12.2 ºC
44 ºF
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Sunrise:
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05:00
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07:00
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Sunset:
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19:00
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17:30
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Average hours of sunshine:
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8.4 hours per day
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9.3 hours per day
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Average number of rain days:
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10
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1
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Appropriate clothing (check average temperature):
- Bush coloured clothing
- Comfortable hiking boots
- Trousers for walking through bush
- Hat and sun block
- Water resistant jacket
- Gloves for mornings and nights
Necessary equipment:
- Binoculars
- Rifles and ammunition
- Rifles can be borrowed but ammunition at cost
- Personnel medication
- Camera, film and batteries
- Insecticides
- Personnel toiletries
List of species:
- Buffalo
- Blesbuck
- Blesbuck Blanco (White)
- Bluewildebeest
- Blackwildebeest
- Bushbuck
- Bushpig
- Baboon
- Cape Redhartebeest
- Caracal
- Common Reedbuck
- Cape Eland
- Crocodile
- Faco (Warthog)
- Gray Duiker
- Giraffe
- Hippo
- Impala
- Jaccal (Jackal)
- Klipspringer
- Kudu
- Lion
- Mountain Reedbuck
- Nyala
- Oryx (Gemsbuck)
- Ostrich
- Porcupine
- Red Duiker
- Rhino
- Roan
- Sable
- Springbuck
- Steenbok
- Tsessebe
- Waterbuck
- Zebra
Exotic
- Barbary Sheep
- Schimitar Oryx
- Indian Blackbuck
- Lechwe
Freestate:
- Buffalo
- Common Reedbuck
- Golden Blesbuck
- Hippo
- Lion
- Livingstone Eland
- Mountain Reedbuck
- Springbuck (Black, Kalahari, Normal, White, Golden)
- Vaal Rhebuck
- All other plains game available.
Taxidermist:
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Tel / Fax: +27 15 291 5295 E-mail: thabamahaka@absamail.co.za
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