Olifants Restcamp - Wildlife & Vegetation
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Keeping in theme with the name of the camp, the area plays host to a multitude of elephants. Baboons, vervet monkeys, fruit bats and thick-tailed bush babies all reside in the
Olifants area, as well as lion, leopard and Cape Clawless otter.
Situated in rugged veld on rhyolite and basalt soil, Olifants river rest hosts lowveld cluster-leaf, raisin bush and mopane. The camp itself exhibits an abundance of trees and plants, including a variety of aloe species. Probably the only accessible sesame bush in the Kruger National Park can also be seen here, as well as sjambok pod (yellow flowers), weeping boerboon (red flowers) and tree euphorbia can all be sighted in the area depending on season.
White-fronted Plover and White-crowned Lapwing (Plover) can both be seen in the riverbed. Pel’s Fishing-Owl can be found on the Olifants river near Balule, along with several stork, heron and kingfisher species. White-backed night heron and (in 2002) the rare (to the park) Black Egret have also been seen in the park at very specific locations.
Most Recent Sightings - Buffalo,
Elephant,
Giraffe,
Kudu,
Zebra,
Baboon,
Crocodile