Thread: Hihitahi

My only trip to that bit of bush was with a Navy radio guy Rex Handcock about 1964. We stayed in a hut he had made that was sheathed in corrugated aluminum from the Navy radio station on the Western side of state hiway one opposite the block. We drove down at night in my Morris Minor in mid winter from home in Devonport. I can only remember being surprised that cabbage trees grew in the snow, blackback gulls are so far inland and Rex got one. That was my first red deer hunt.
Rex left the navy and went meat hunting at Harihari on the Westcoast.
In 1997 I tracked him down in Murchison for a catch up.