Likkewaan (Rock Monitor)

**TStone** · 20-10-2013, 17:11

We found this one while hunting on friday. They are quite common here in the Southern Free State (as are water monitors).

**Andrew Leigh** · 20-10-2013, 17:20

Outstanding specimen, one of my favourite reptiles, love the way the swagger about the bush.

**Maroelas** · 20-10-2013, 17:26

Oh how I miss the koppies of Philippolis!

Nice specimen TStone!

**TStone** · 20-10-2013, 17:35

Originally Posted by Andrew Leigh

Outstanding specimen, one of my favourite reptiles, love the way the swagger about the bush.

Never thought about the swagger bit, but it is certainly very descriptive.

**TStone** · 20-10-2013, 17:45

Originally Posted by rboshoff

Oh how I miss the koppies of Philippolis!

Nice specimen TStone!

Untill I moved here I believed the Free State was flat and, well... ugly:)

**Messor** · 20-10-2013, 18:45

Nice meat.

**GameFarmer** · 20-10-2013, 18:52

Originally Posted by Messor

Nice meat.

TStone or the lizard?

**Messor** · 20-10-2013, 18:59

Originally Posted by GameFarmer

TStone or the lizard?

Double LOL!

Actually the veld-likkewaan we leave alone, but plenty a water-likkewaan has met it's end during our survival trips.
And they often grow to about 2m, a lot of good meat, that rugstrings seems to have no end.

**GameFarmer** · 20-10-2013, 19:07

Messor I suspect I'll go hungry quite a lot on one of your 'trips'

Taste like chicken?

TStone, you are brave to pick it up like that. That mouth looks handy for nipping at appendixes.

**Messor** · 20-10-2013, 19:38

Originally Posted by GameFarmer

Messor I suspect I'll go hungry quite a lot on one of your 'trips'

Taste like chicken?

Hungry, on my trips, an insult most foul :)

And no, while the meat does have a whitish color to it, once you fry it up it starts looking glossy like pig, tastes like a combination between baber and krokodil.