Warren Properties

 

SIZE  850 ha 

 

R3,4  Million + vat

 

This property is situated 55 km East of Cradock in the Elandsrift area.

 

This unique property is nestled in the Winter berg Mountains with Pringle's Kop in the East at a height of 1800 meter with gentle slopes down the valley. The valley has numerous fountains. The abundance of fauna and flora ,artefacts ,bushman paintings and fossils makes this a nature lover's paradise.

The farm is of great historical value. The first San people were there thousands of years ago .The first Europeans settled in this area in the late 1700 AD.           

Encephalartos Cycadifolius  specie is only found in this area in the whole world.

 

There are various fossil sights .

 

 

 

FOSSILS

Fossils of Cicynodontia and Cynodontia mammal like reptiles namely:

Thrinaxodon first mammal like features

Lystrosaurus around 240 million years ago

 

 

 

 

FARM DETAILS

 

9 x camps

1x sheep handling facilities

4x reservoirs

8x water troughs

Roads are fair to good

Fencing and infrastructure very good

1x Ground dam

2x windmills [ 2000 liters per hour / 30 000 per hour]

Mountains and valleys

10 ha per LSU

Rain fall 450 mm per year

Enjoy the tranquillity and freshness of this area with prehistoric and historic history of the African Continent. A must for the nature lover, bird watcher ,fossil hunter and game enthusiast.

 

 

Very moderate climate with cold winters and snow on the mountain peaks.

 

This is a once in a life time opportunity. 

Charles Garth

072 474 7181

WARREN PROPERTIES

Tel: 048 8812837 / Office 043 7307 154

Fax: 0866 930611 / Office 0865408364

cjgarth@telkomsa.net

 

 

Animals

 

Kudu

Mountain reedbuck

Vaal rhebuck                                              

Steenbuck

Springbuck

Warthog

Bushpig

Duiker

Steenbuck

Lately seen, Fallow deer

 

 

 

BIRDS

226 species of birds identified in the area  including the following.

Black eagle

Martial eagle

Cape vulture

Blue crane

Greywing francolin

Fierynecked nightjar

Cape eagle owl

Spotted eagle owl

Rameron pigon

 

 

REPTILES

A wide variety of replites including:

Rock monitor ( Varanus albigularis)

Water monitor (Varanus niloticus)

Cape crag lizard (Pseudocordylus microlepidotus)

Common long-tailed seps (Tetradactylus tetradactylus)

Cape grass lizard (Chamaesaura anguina)

Cape legless skink (Acontias orientalis)

Striped blind legless skink ( Microacontias lineatus)

Greater padloper (Homopus femoralis)

Leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis)

Cape cobra

Puffadder

Boomslang

Mole snake

Brown house snake

Black headed Centipede eater

Spotted skaapsteker

Spotted Harlequin snake