Am back in Twizel staying with Brent and his family. Weather has been good but there is a little rain in the forecast. Have been doing quite a bit of fishing the past few days. I've managed to land a few small ones and have lost a couple BIG fish. Rainbow Trout. Any how as you can see today was a hunting day. We went out shooting Wallabys. A cousin to the kangaroo, and introduced here in NZ. In some areas they are a real nuisance competing with sheep. I managed to shoot four and they're not easy to hit the way they hop straight away from you. As you can see they are pretty good sized weighing between 15-40+ pounds. Was neat to jump them up out of brush and see such a strange animal bounding away. We seen perhaps 20 altogether. I fired at about three others and missed, including one sitting still at 50 yards. The two I'm holding together were still shots at 200 yards or so. The first one I got was hopping and I got it at about 150 yards. Fun to hunt and good to know that you're removing a nuisance animal. As you can see from the top photo the leaves are just stunning at the moment. They're starting to fall though. I think the peak was last week. Not sure what the next few days are going to bring. (I like that).
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