So first light were up onto the tops and at our first glassing stop, within minutes Ryan had spotted a lone fallow doe, after which it took me a further 5 minutes to see it with Ryan trying to guide my binos onto it.
The gut we were glassing was incredibly thick with scrub and matagouri and the wind was not in our favour so after the doe hot up walked 6 steps and disappeared we decided to look for more favourable guts more sheltered from the constant and at times quite strong wind.
I watched as a lone kereru flew over just before we left and thought, shit ten minutes and we've seen our first deer we are in for a bloody good day.
Little did know at the time.... I was right.
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