Thread: crispy frost at the oamaru

That place looks brill.... haven't been down there, will have to give it the once over!....cheers for the pics!

THE BEST THING ABOUT EAST CREEK WHEN I WAS THERE... was the hot shower!! we spent a week there one time and all it did was rain. but yip your right it is a good block even tho it is not that big. plenty of room for two guns, and heaps of t tree to hunt in if you are so inclined.

Originally Posted by sakokid

THE BEST THING ABOUT EAST CREEK WHEN I WAS THERE... was the hot shower!! we spent a week there one time and all it did was rain. but yip your right it is a good block even tho it is not that big. plenty of room for two guns, and heaps of t tree to hunt in if you are so inclined.

My mate took a shower, got a chill...got as sick as the proverbial dog...When it come time to walk to the air strip I had to do three trips with our packs and gear so my son could walk my mate out...thought for a while he might cark it.

Wow those photos are beautiful, you should consider chucking some on canavas and hanging them in your house! Stunning!

thanks dougie..taken on a cheap point and shoot camera. No room to hang pictures, to many trophy mounts!!!

One of my favourite areas in there, cheers for sharing the photos.

Good on you for telling it like it is Spook

Usually good fellas in the huts around the backcountry

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Originally Posted by phillipgr

Usually good fellas in the huts around the backcountry

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Yes you are correct about the 'good fellas', but give it time and you will run into the odd eccentric...the Oamaru hut could almost be classed as a road end hut and is a staging post for hunters and trampers heading else where therefore gets a lot of foot traffic.

You need to travel to more phillip
Always found it a 50/50 chance of sane nice person or a complete wack job.
Odds do improve off tramping routes though . . .

Originally Posted by Barefoot

You need to travel to more phillip

You mean soften up? Then again, camping with Rushy is pretty luxurious

Ive met a few nut jobs in huts around the hills..
We flew into the Oamaru a few years back now. A couple of days later a bloke turned up late one evening, he walked in in sandals with a tree stand strapped to his back and a pack liner tied to it with a little gear in it (told us he forgot his boots). I cant remember his name, but he told two of us his name was (something) and our other party member it was (something else), so we were calling him different names the whole time and he never corrected us. He had fuck all food with him and was very vague as to his plans, in the whole time we were there maybe 3 or 4 days more he only went for one morning hunt, spent the rest of the time just staring blankly out the hut window. On our final morning we packed up and took all our gear down to the helipad, I decided to quickly double check we hadn't left anything, ran back up to the hut and he was standing looking into the now empty meat safe, as I walked off he started opening and slamming the door to the safe continuously , then when the chopper finally arrived he came running down and asked if we could fly out all of his stuff, the answer was no as we were already close to the limit on the way in and had venison in the chopper on the way out.
Who knows what happened but there were a few screws loose, in fact it wouldn't surprise me if he's still up his tree stand somewhere..

Originally Posted by Nick.m

Ive met a few nut jobs in huts around the hills..
We flew into the Oamaru a few years back now. A couple of days later a bloke turned up late one evening, he walked in in sandals with a tree stand strapped to his back and a pack liner tied to it with a little gear in it (told us he forgot his boots). I cant remember his name, but he told two of us his name was (something) and our other party member it was (something else), so we were calling him different names the whole time and he never corrected us. He had fuck all food with him and was very vague as to his plans, in the whole time we were there maybe 3 or 4 days more he only went for one morning hunt, spent the rest of the time just staring blankly out the hut window. On our final morning we packed up and took all our gear down to the helipad, I decided to quickly double check we hadn't left anything, ran back up to the hut and he was standing looking into the now empty meat safe, as I walked off he started opening and slamming the door to the safe continuously , then when the chopper finally arrived he came running down and asked if we could fly out all of his stuff, the answer was no as we were already close to the limit on the way in and had venison in the chopper on the way out.
Who knows what happened but there were a few screws loose, in fact it wouldn't surprise me if he's still up his tree stand somewhere..

crazy sounding hua! Fit and proper?

Originally Posted by Gibo

crazy sounding hua! Fit and proper?

Yea man, giving him the benefit of the doubt possibly just gone a normal guy gone off the rails... maybe something had happened in his life to cause it as his mind seemed to be pre-occupied.

Originally Posted by Nick.m

Yea man, giving him the benefit of the doubt possibly just gone a normal guy gone off the rails... maybe something had happened in his life to cause it as his mind seemed to be pre-occupied.

Yeah be a few seeking solitude away from the world. Un settling non the less.