Thread: Fiordland Advice

Morning team,

I am spending the first week of April in Fiordland on a liveaboard charter. The trip is a bucket-list one for my dad (73 and ageing quickly), and the aim is to get a big cray and shoot a deer as well as enjoy the scenery. The cray part should look after itself, it's the deer I need some help with. As it is a charter with 6 other blokes (who are all on the same mission) I don't know exactly where we'll be but am after some advice on the best type of country to look in.

We will be living on the boat so will only do day hunts from the shoreline. My dad is old and unfit (I am young and unfit) so climbing to the tops and glassing is a no-go given we will be limited to day hunting. I am thinking of two options that will likely provide the best results.
Option 1 - Climb a little bit (say 100m elevation) and find a terrace or flatish spur and roar, sidling into the wind. This will only work in areas that are not near-vertical (I'm not sure how much of this ground there is)
Option 2 - Find a good lookout and glass slips, possibly roar a stag out into the open.

I'm not planning on shooting a trophy, just want a cool experience with my old man before he's too old. Anyone done this and have some advice on how to approach it?

Cheers,
Adam