Thread: Stewart Island advice?

Well we made it in Sat afternoon... water taxi had to drop us at the next beach over cos ours was too rough, which meant a nasty bash up and over a headland to get to the only decent campsite in the block... would have been a 200m stroll along the beach at low tide! We hadn't really packed with the intention of carrying everything too far, so the packs were pretty heavy! Still got an evening recce/hunt in too though.

Sat evening I came down with some kind of gastro bug and spent most of the night crapping what felt like stomach acid into the bush... maybe we shouldn't have had sausies and cheese rolls from the BBQ at the beach shindig the locals were having? Spent Sun morning feeling sorry for myself instead of hunting, but was back into it for the rest of the trip.

Didn't get any deer unfortunately, 2 of us didn't even see one. Just heard a couple spook right beside the main tramping track. 2 mates who hunted the other half of the block saw the back of one as it ran away, also on the track. Thats the only place any of us saw/heard animals, maybe they know people aren't allowed to hunt near the track? We weren't being at all quiet at the time, just plodding through as it was a quicker way to the bit we wanted to hunt. Fair bit of sign in patches here and there though, think we just weren't slow and sneaky enough at the right time! Not a lot of quiet bush in that block, heaps of tall crownfern etc but we did find some more open patches and even one half-decent clearing on the coast. Sat watching open bits for a long time with no luck that way either.

Ah well, some lessons learnt for next time anyway! Its an amazing place, can't wait to go back. 3 or 4 days isn't really long enough.