Thread: Stewart Island advice.

Or just get a room somewhere in Halfmoon Bay and a rental car . Book the open zone and hunt that close to the bay. Walking tracks everywhere. Rocks to fish off and charter boats for fishing to if that's your thing. Its great to have a shower after a hunt and fish and chips up the road.

Originally Posted by ghosts

Or just get a room somewhere in Halfmoon Bay and a rental car . Book the open zone and hunt that close to the bay. Walking tracks everywhere. Rocks to fish off and charter boats for fishing to if that's your thing. Its great to have a shower after a hunt and fish and chips up the road.

A shower and fish and chips sounds tempting but we want to be a bit more adventurous than staying in a motel and driving 5km to the road end. I am sure there is some good hunting around there that you locals know about but I am not going there just for the hunting. Even if I do see animals I may not shoot anything.
At the moment we are erring towards flying fixed wing into one of the northern/western blocks. Hopefully there won't be trampers walking past every 5 minutes.

Fair enough. Trampers will be quite thick from about now on. Especially the nor-west circuit or the Maori beach to North arm and back to the Bay.
Doughboy is quite a spectacular block. Does get a few hardy trampers but the plane will land you on the beach with a hundred yd stroll to the hut. Not a lot of deer but they are there. As are rocks for fishing off. Kiwis all over the place and quite a remote part of the Island. Just don't freak to much about the plastic that gets washed up there from around the world, though Masons Bay gets it to.