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treestoo

Post subject: Re: New Crocodile Bridge Gate between Kruger and Komatipoort

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 12:33 pm

Joined: Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:41 pm
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Whether you stay at the Croc Bridge camp or not is a separate issue to the fact that this IS where the game is! The S28 to Lower Sabie is wonderful! Also, the fact that the Croc Bridge Gate is a great point to enter/exit the Kruger from Komatipoort for onward travel to Jo'burg, Swaziland AND Mozambique! It has been avoided by many due to the rains in the last few years, but now there is no reason to do so! Go for it! The new bridge is 1.9 metres higher, so flooding shouldn't be an issue now....less of an adventure but a reliable transit point!

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treestoo

Post subject: Re: New Crocodile Bridge Gate between Kruger and Komatipoort

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:41 am

Joined: Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:41 pm
Posts: 9

Just a quick note to let you all know that the new Croc Bridge from Komatipoort has now been open for a couple of weeks, so go and enjoy! No more scepticism please!!! :D

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DuQues

Post subject: Re: New Crocodile Bridge Gate between Kruger and Komatipoort

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:47 am

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Location: Red sand, why do I keep thinking of red sand?

I'll have a look (and a few photos) in exactly 3 weeks... :dance:

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Bush Baptist

Post subject: Re: New Crocodile Bridge Gate between Kruger and Komatipoort

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:17 pm

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Joined: Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:38 pm
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Location: In the shadow of Table Mountain
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treestoo wrote:

No more scepticism please!!! :D

Wishful thinking. Show us da money!

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ndloti

Post subject: Re: New Crocodile Bridge Gate between Kruger and Komatipoort

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:29 pm

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Joined: Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:45 pm
Posts: 5607
Location: Thankfully not in a city

skywalker2251 wrote:

Bush Baptist wrote:

Hey

are you trying to get our little bit of paradise overrun?

I would like to see a good rain before I comment on the bridge, but there is no restaurant or pool at Croc Bridge, and I don't see why anyone would want to stay there.

Another reason to avoid CB is that there are so few roads to travel out of camp. You basically have to go north. Why not stay in a camp like Skukuza, Satara, or Lower Sabie where there are many more choices of roads and directions to take.

BB - are you at it again ? :evil:

Please cease publicising this jewell that has no restaurant (yet) and so few road choices ?

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treestoo

Post subject: Re: New Crocodile Bridge Gate between Kruger and Komatipoort

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 1:10 pm

Joined: Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:41 pm
Posts: 9

Sorry! I Know! I am completely irrepressible! But the good burgers of Komatipoort have fought for a new bridge for years and are delighted ..this IS the game rich end of the Park, the S28 and route up to Lower Sabie and Mlondozi is wonderful and extremely reliable for sightings...Living just 8 km from this gate, I go in a couple of times a month and have guests doing that route every day..it NEVER disappoints! If you want game go here...if you want a restaurant...go to one! Enjoy!!!!!!

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jeroenvm

Post subject: Re: New Crocodile Bridge Gate between Kruger and Komatipoort

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 2:57 pm

Joined: Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:30 am
Posts: 50

When driving from Lower Sabie to Croc bridge last year for the first time it struck me how lush and green the agricultural land on the hills beyond the river is compared to the parched park, the herbivores must be able to see and smell all the juicy wet leaves ... maybe that's the reason why there are so many in that corner of the park, with the cats hot on their tracks?

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Bush Baptist

Post subject: Re: New Crocodile Bridge Gate between Kruger and Komatipoort

Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 9:11 pm

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ndloti wrote:

BB - are you at it again ? :evil:

You called sir?

I want to see pics of the new bridge when the water hits please.

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Dan

Post subject: Re: New Crocodile Bridge Gate between Kruger and Komatipoort

Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 11:40 am

Joined: Wed Jan 19, 2005 2:19 pm
Posts: 405
Location: NOT where I want to be!!

I agree BB

Where are the pics? And how many elephants were upstream at the time? :twisted:

And where did you see any cats or other game? Some proof of all this speculation please. :cam:

And Treestoo, what kind of business are you running in Komatiepoort in any case that you’re all of a sudden advertising our delicate little spot so much, threatening to ruin her completely by flooding her with tourists…?! :hmz:

Hou jou in asb!!

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norms

Post subject: Re: New Crocodile Bridge Gate between Kruger and Komatipoort

Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 11:50 am

Joined: Wed Feb 25, 2009 5:23 pm
Posts: 914
Location: All over the place!!

Dan - Treestoo is a Guest House in Komatiepoort. Obviously trying to attract business to the town.

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Marak

Post subject: Crocodile Bridge bridge

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:58 am

Joined: Sat Nov 28, 2009 11:22 am
Posts: 4

Hi - does anyone know if Crocodile Bridge (the actual bridge) is still open, meaning is it overflowing or not?

I'm going to the park over the weekend, and just want to know if we will be able to exit the park at Crocodile Bridge.

Thank you!

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oddesy

Post subject: Re: Crocodile Bridge

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 11:01 am

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Joined: Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:57 pm
Posts: 3426
Location: Randburg, SA

Marak, it is open :thumbs_up:

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Nungu

Post subject: Re: Crocodile Bridge

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 11:48 am

Junior Virtual Ranger

Joined: Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:36 pm
Posts: 1269
Location: Pretoria

Hi Marak - there is a new bridge at CB nowadays...

On that... does anybody have any pictures of the new bridge? I want to at least see what it looks like before its washed away :twisted:

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Nungu

Post subject: Re: Crocodile Bridge

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 11:55 am

Junior Virtual Ranger

Joined: Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:36 pm
Posts: 1269
Location: Pretoria

Never mind... I found pictures of the new bridge (as well as news on all the current road closures) here: Dec 2010 Road Closures

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Marak

Post subject: Re: Crocodile Bridge

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 12:31 pm

Joined: Sat Nov 28, 2009 11:22 am
Posts: 4

Thank you very much for the quick feedback!

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