Thread: Oamaru Hut

No, we did not. Kai and I got to within 10 yards of three in the, unsurprisingly... pepperwood on the sunny north faces, tucked out of the wind. Watched one drift away through the tight (I was parallel to him in the open as I couldn't face another 20 minutes of branches in the face) as Kai "snooped in". Not long enough for a shot, but cool to watch. They just "drift away". Standing still for five minutes, we knew a deer was a few metres below, waited, waited, then waited some more scanning.... only to see one sneak into the crown fern from a pepper wood stand. Heard it "frummm" downhill a few minutes later after sneaking in. Standing on a mossy open section outside the tight, just resting and "being still". I was staring ahead 10 steps away at a log. "Gee, that stump looks just like.... a... de..e...r??!!!... no...no.... rifle ...." oh, stink. Did an accidental "superdive" off a wet log, fell off backwards sliding over it. The lever action was slow to catch up and landed hard on my quad above the knee. Took the necessary 10 seconds to register "is anything broken". No, but it munted me. Ending up limping back to the hut, then limping home, wounded, but thankful as it could have been worse, much worse.