Off Road Protocol

Question 1

Name the 13 off road driving protocol

Answer 1

• no off road driving for following spoor
• no following any other game(not big 5) off road may be viewed on foot on all properties or over sensitive areas
• do not drive over logs that have been placed to block off a road
• no off road driving during wet weather, and all seep lines, sodic or duplex soils and sensitive areas
• no driving up or down river and drainage line banks
• guides are not permitted to drive over slow growing or rare tree species
• no of roading in burnt areas unless openend by head guide or manager of property opens the area
• no off road driving for a drink stop spot is permitted
• off road driving to view zebra, wildebeest, giraffe only permitted on savannah
• of road driving limited to lion, leopard, rhino, elephant, buffalo, wild dog,cheetah, caracal, serval, african wild cat, hyena and hippo
• limit off-roading for rhino to one sighting a drive
• riverbed driving permitted, only a single two track to be used, if guide veers of two track reason must be stated and must come rack tracks within 48 hours (all guides that used the two track must assist)

Question 2

Name all the seasonal roads to be avoided after 20mm of rain

Answer 2

-Shortcut from main mac to cheetah flats
- all roads south of main mac west if savanna
- rain gauge
- Elliot’s road
- Tshidzidzi
- windmill road
- little Serengeti crossing
- Nkombe track
- mahimbi
- old fence
- porcupine
- ingwe road
- dam 3-5 star
- madjimbirri north
- treestump
- 2/3 of cutline
- shortcut Aarons pan
- phuza manzi
- mud road
- ziziphus south of mabjimbirri
- western firebreak from waterbuck link to delivery access
- shortcut gate 2/3 fhaga mafura
- gaurri central
- thorn road

Question 3

Name the slow growing tree species that are not to be driven over

Answer 3

Apple leave
All thorn trees
Brown ivory
Bushveld albezia
Bushveld gardenia
Bushveld saffron
Common star chestnut
Common tree euphorbia
Common wild currant
All fig trees
Dwarf boer bean
Dwarf coral tree
Green thorn
Jackal berry
Kiaat
Leadwood
Lebombo cluster leaf
Long tailed cassia
Lowveld milkberry
Matumi
Monkey orange
Natal mahogany
Poison grub corkwood
Pride of the kaap
Quinine tree
Red ivory
Red milkwood
Sausage tree
Sicklebush
Sneezewood
Tree wisteria
Velvet leaved corkwood
Waterberry
Weeping boer bean
Wild date palm
Wild syringa
Zebra wood