Wilddogs on the Sabie River Road.

by Heila van der Merwe
(Nelspruit)

We were staying at Skukuza and for a few days in a row we saw on the viewing map that people saw the Wilddogs on that road. The next morning we went that way and after a long drive we saw them in the road! We followed them for about 6 kms, they kept stopping, smelling and looking at anything along the way - like reading the daily newspaper.
At one place the water went over the road and they enjoyed that, drinking and cooling off, and back to the road. In the end they went off the road and into the bush, dissapearing. A few meters further we saw some impalas and stopped. The next moment there was a big commotion with wilddogs fying out of the bush and impala flying all over to get away. Unfortunatly we didn't see a kill, but the speed and the determination of the dogs was something to experiance!