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.’