Thread: Can you identify this place - Stewart Island

Attached is a slide taken by my Dad in I guess the 1960s, all I know is that it is on Stewart Island, but I would like to pin down where the hut is if anyone recognises it. Must have been a successful hunting trip, a large skin drying on the wire and the cropped close up I have done shows a head on the grass in front.





Thanks for any assistance.

Giraffe deer

looks more like a cow skin

Certainly not whitetail

Left-hand skin and head look like a red, other skins might be whitetail.

Can’t be too many areas that were in pasture on Stewart Island, but some may be covered in scrub nowadays.

Somewhere up Freshwater river

Great image and it has a story to tell
Someone will place it better from the shape of the distant ridge

Could be somehere around the Hapuatuna point, or over in Masons bay........only guessing really.
The ridge in the background will be a good landmark

I think this is your mountain the misty one in the distance
Mt Anglem
Which might put your image up Freshwater

Remember mountain is a relative term down there
As soon as they poke up a bit they get weathered back down fast

Originally Posted by akaroa1

Remember mountain is a relative term down there
As soon as they poke up a bit they get weathered back down fast

remember that stewart islander are "mountain men"
they like mountain women, sheep, goats............

ok kidding!! great place

@akaroa1 I think you'll find that it os pryses peak that isn't misty and mt rakeahua in the background.... my guess is either tolson river at the start of freshwater or rakiahua landing, vegetation makes me think river rather than coastal.
@ghosts may shed some light on it.

I think it is Ruggedy Flat on the Freshwater River.

As above, it'll likely be up the Freshwater.

Showed to a local who has been here...... lot longer than me. 100% Freshwater landing they have photos of the hut, similar eta

Said locals grandfather used to store wool in the shed before they tried taking it out over the surf at masons

Originally Posted by 223nut

@akaroa1 I think you'll find that it os pryses peak that isn't misty and mt rakeahua in the background.... my guess is either tolson river at the start of freshwater or rakiahua landing, vegetation makes me think river rather than coastal.
@ghosts may shed some light on it.

I agree with you on the second photo, Mt Anglem is in a totally different direction from that viewpoint.