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A WEEKEND AWAY AT

THORNYBUSH GAME RESERVE

TEXT AND PHOTOS BY ANTHONY CAVANAGH

Enjoying a sundowner

hornybush Private Game
Reserve is situated in the
TTimbavati region of the greater
Kruger National Park with access to
many of Kruger Park’s mammal species
and over 400 bird species.
Sue and I joined other members of
the Wits Bird Club at Marula Camp, one
of the many camps in the reserve. It
nestles in a grove of marula trees and
has four very comfortable and well-
appointed air-conditioned chalets,
each with a large verandah and superb
views of the bush. The swimming pool
and a sunken viewing hide at ground
level with the camp waterhole, are
two additional features of the camp.
Game viewing is by means of a
ten-seater safari vehicle and on our
first evening drive, our guide Lance
Robinson pointed out numerous
bird species including dark chanting
goshawk, bateleur, a wahlberg’s eagle
being mobbed by fork-tailed drongos, Maposa

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