Thread: Last of the light

Originally Posted by Flyblown

I reckon "last of the light" could just as easily have been "bastard wind".

Somewhere, sometime ago, I read a really really good article about understanding and reading gully winds. Something in the back of my mind says it was by Phillip Holden but that might be wrong.

It was definitely one of the old NZ Forestry deer cullers.

I still struggle with reading wind, but there's definitely some basic principles about how geography affects wind flow. Would be good to find that source again.

Whoever it was from the NZFS, they probably smoked rollies and this would have helped as an indicator