Hi all
Good to hear it didn't take long for someone to snap up the booking, hope they have a great trip. Just got out and it was an interesting week with three days of crap weather, however we got out and about and all three scored a sika. There were contacts each time we hunted for them, and around the 1000 to 1200 m asl mark was the most common altitude to find them. Just starting to gets their pads started and a few trees getting thrashed. I opened up some of the stream crossings that were closed in with toitoi to make travel a little easier as there has been no track maintenance in there since 2015. The new fireplace is easier to get going but because of the solid top plate takes at least an hour to get it hot enough to slowly cook, the old version had a lift out round plate that gave access to the flames and it cooked great, so maybe take an extra cooker to get your meals cooked in good time. The whio family is still hanging on in there, as are karearea (falcon), kaka, and kakariki. Caught a good sized trout for breaky as well. Hot barrels to all those who are still to hunt the roar, and be careful. I shot this monster on the last night, and he was in his bright summer coat, and the head was just to big to carry out. Pleased I have removed him from the gen pool.![]()
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