A Tassie escape
Melbournians have suffered the most from COVID lockdowns and the various interstate travel restrictions. The hunting fraternity was rendered particularly miserable by stay-at-home constraints, since not many of us had the luxury of chasing game in our own backyards.
March is the Tasmanian season for taking fallow deer stags and diehard Victorian deer hunters religiously head to the Apple Isle at this time. The 2021 season was in the lap of the gods. From the tail-end of the 2020 campaign until February 2021, Melbourne had endured seemingly perpetual lockdown, and also the unpredictability of the types of restrictions imposed, with the lack of advance notice.
Hence it was with high spirits and great optimism that my long-time hunting buddy Zeke and I drove off the Spirit of Tasmania ferry with me in the passenger seat in late March, 2021. It was wonderful to be back in Tassie, enjoying the crisp, clean air,
