Firstly I would like to say that over the last few years we have had some wonderful girls move into the inlet, now I have spent the better part of my life running from females, and I'm not suggesting that the sudden influx of women has anything to do with me living here of-course☺. Up at 0530, we had plans to bring Pete's new boat down from the head of the inlet today, problem was we had to bring the trailer over water (or should that be under water) and as there are no roads out here, this created a small problem, more about that later. Pete thought while we where up there we may as well go for a pig hunt, Mathea one of these lovely girls I was talking about was keen to come, so meet me down at the boat shed at 0700, we took the boat up to the head of the inlet to meet Pete with his four wheeler and the dogs, then we headed up to Garey's place, that's where the new boat was, I told Mathea on the way up the inlet that we will be doing the lady's hunt today, but Pete...

Sitting by the fire after a long couple of days hunting with Pete my neighbor, not much luck but spending two days in the bush is never a chore. I took the boat into town last week as needed some work done on my back and ended up with a filling at the dentists and a dog! or should that be a bitch, well ok a female dog then, and people wonder why I don't go to town much. Now my last dog Red was the biggest pot licking, wandering, mongrel you ever have meet, he had children all over Christchurch and I swore I would never get another. Now that reminds me of a story, I was delivering flyers one day push biking around the neighborhood with Red wandering along when a guy I new came out of his house and asked "is that your f-----ing mongrel?" turned out he had cleared this guys six foot back fence and impregnated his pure bread Rottweiler that he was about breed, I rode off quickly, what can you say 'act of god', another time I left him with my mother and she was out wal...

I don't think I have mentioned Peter&Colleen they live just down the track from me and you won't find a nicer couple, they often feed me and put up with my bullshit. Well my luck had to come right some time, Pete my 70+ year old pig hunting neighbor kindly lets me tag along and carry his rifle some times, when we can find the bullets that is, anyway yesterday was our first hunt for the winter and we had a good start. Up at 6 am and walked around to Pete&Col's, then off on Pete's four wheeler with me and the two dogs Smoke&Jack on the back, cold morning and Pete asked if I had any long trousers as I was wearing shorts and shivering, anyway we left the bike by the big tree before the bridge (in other words I can't tell you where we left the bike) and headed up the hill, frosty and cold and not much fresh sign, after climbing up and around then through a gully the dog's stated bailing a pig, Pete took off like a 25 year old down after the dogs with m...