With a weekend of clear weather scheduled for the Wanaka area, the pack was thrown in the back of the truck and a plan was hatched to get into some areas of a catchment where I had spent a bit of time over the last couple of years. Unfortunately, work commitments got in the way, and it became evident I wasn't going to get into the intended location until after midnight on Friday, so an early start on Saturday morning was the compromise.
I arrived in the chosen catchment at daybreak and, to my surprise, there was only I was hoping to catch out an animal that was living somewhere secluded from the general traffic generated by ballot holders a couple of weeks prior.
