Thread: Moose

Here we go again - same location as March ... Canadian hikers claim to spot moose in South Island

Three Canadian hikers say they saw what they believe to be a moose as they completed the Kepler Track in Fiordland last month.

It is the second such report in March after American visitors Norbert Nigon and Virginia Schuning said they saw one on the track two weeks earlier.

Annie-Pier Bourgeois, Antoine Beauchamp and Chanel Sabourin-Dubois were on their third day on the track, on March 29, on the final stretch before returning to the carpark when they came across a large animal near the bank of the Iris Burn River.

Mr Beauchamp said the noise they were making scared the animal into the bush, but they decided to cross the track and look for it.

"That’s when we had a good look at him, and our very first instinct was to say, ‘Oh my God, that’s a moose.’

French though...

In all seriousness, they are credible and describe exactly what a bull moose would look like in NZ going on the antlers of the past.

https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star...e-south-island
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/fiordl...CFTZWR7V6PPZ4/

Try that, the first link didn't work for me. But, hoping against hope here - a case of where there is smoke there's fire???

I am open to the idea.....but literally every human has a camera attached to them now....where is a bloody photo?

yes until someone has a quality verified photo it could be a horse or very fat red deer covered in mud and wet

Have you noticed that only foreigners see them ,…

Another fail with any picture. Could make a Tui Ad from this! Waro heli and a hundred or so trail cams over the last 20 yrs or more found.........nothing. Hunters shot .....fu.k all..old skeletons - nah virtually nil in recent years. They gotta die sometime and that was decades ago. Just saying of course.

Originally Posted by Friwi

Have you noticed that only foreigners see them ,…

Canadian tourists have probably prompted each other to wind up the locals.

Originally Posted by Friwi

Have you noticed that only foreigners see them ,…

Kepler track is heaving with foreigners tho. I have doubts but I really want it all to be true. It's my santa claus

Probably half the reason is only the foreigners know what they are looking at. Noting as well, both times it's people from North America and from what I can see neither lot was related to the other??? Interesting really. If I'm recalling right, first one claimed a cow and second a bull?

The Kepler track, lol.

Well if they do exist, it's only a matter of time until we get a picture given that was two sightings in 1 month.

I shot this Fallow buck in Canada.

Originally Posted by Southcity

I shot this Fallow buck in Canada.

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You mean that deformed genetically poor elk?

The Kepler is an awful long way from Wet Jacket. But it seems these folk are pretty credible ... I'd love to think the moose are still around.