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yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts)
Sun Oct 23, 2016, 11:31 PM Oct 2016

Pete's Pond

link
http://www.wildearth.tv/cam/petes-pond

Mashatu Game Reserve is a wholly preserved and untainted wilderness in eastern Botswana, at the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers. The ample plains range from savannah, to riverine forests, marshland, and sandstone outcrops. Mashatu, ‘Land of Giants’ takes its name from the locally-sacrosanct Mashatu tree and the giants that roam the terrain. This is where Pete’s Pond is so famously situated and where thousands of pondies reside everyday.

National Geographic used to host the LIVE camera but WildEarth took it over in May 2011. A group of ‘zoomies’ (all of whom are ‘pondies’) from all over the world take it in turns to man the camera and zoom in on the interesting things.
With a bit of patience you can expect to see anything from elephants coming for a drink to a Monitor lizard roaming the side of the Pond. And from the antics of vervet monkeys and baboons to fishing Hamerkop birds

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Pete's Pond (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Oct 2016 OP
Interesting. BigMin28 Oct 2016 #1
Crocodile yortsed snacilbuper Oct 2016 #2
That's a great site! brer cat Oct 2016 #7
Giraffe getting a sip next to a fish eagle (I think) Quiet_Dem_Mom Oct 2016 #8
The suns beginning to rise over Pete's Pond, yortsed snacilbuper Oct 2016 #9
Elephants. yortsed snacilbuper Oct 2016 #10
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BigMin28

(1,176 posts)
1. Interesting.
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 12:01 AM
Oct 2016

I check in there all the time, along with Djuma waterhole. I have seen all kinds of animals. The cameras run 24/7. You can see quite a lot on the night vision camera.

brer cat

(24,559 posts)
7. That's a great site!
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 08:21 AM
Oct 2016

Thanks for bringing it here, yortsed snacilbuper. ot, I love your user name...it took me a minute to get it the first time I saw you here!

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