Happy Hunting

I'm sure by now you are all wondering why no posts lately. Well I'll tell you. I could have posted pictures of a billion raindrops/snowflakes because that's all I've seen for the past six days till today. One of the biggest snowstorms in two decades just swept across NZ. Some places here on the South Island got a meter and half plus of snow. That's 4.5 feet!! The top of the mountain in the photo is Mount Hutt behind my house and it got that much on top. It is one of the major ski fields in NZ and its neat at night to see the headlights of the snow groomers working way up on the mountain. The skiers will be real happy! They now have a 3 meter snow base. So around 10 feet! Here at the farm we had at the most about 2-3 inches of snow with A LOT of rain. The good news is it is supposed to be sunny for the next 5-7days:-) Enough about the weather. All the dead critters are the result of a big hunting competition that was held this past weekend. I stopped and looked at them today. There was about 30 wild boar, 3 Himalayan Tahr which are the animals in the third photo. And 5 deer. Also a bunch of Hares and Possums in the last photo. The neat thing was that I was in town to get groceries for my own hunting trip starting tomorrow. Am going with the guy who's boat I fished on a couple of weeks ago. Him, me, and one other guy. We're planning on being gone 4 days. And we're after Tahr. Just Google Himalayan Tahr and you'll see good photos of what they look like. They're a type of goat that live on the very tops of the mountains. Should be interesting with all the recent snow. Hopefully you'll see me with one later in the week!!