So we had a pretty good trip. Didn't manage to shoot anything but saw a little bit of sign and found a nice spot that we will need to check out once it gets warmer. We were able to drive up onto the end of a ridge after a creek crossing that took a couple of goes as the far side bank was pretty steep for the little suzuki with crappy at tyres on it. Once up there we parked up and kind of followed our noses along the ridge there were a few clearings along the way and at the end of it the creek was flowing down the valley. we stayed along the bush line and were walking along the edge of a large open flat quite open and covered in grass, I marked it on the gps as surely this would have to be a good spot when it warms up. We kept going up the creek finding more clearings eventually coming to the bottom of a waterfall It was beautiful up there.
Standing there looking at the water fall got me thinking of a way to get up to the top of it to see what was further on after looking around i found a track heading up the side of it we started following it when something strange happened. As we were walking along I noticed something brown sitting in the middle of the track that didn't quite look like a rock, then it moved I thought cool it must be a little Kiwi. We stopped and then I realized it was a morepork, Having heard different things about seeing them in the day time we were a bit hesitant so we stood there for a while and just watched it we were only about a meter from it and it just sat there in the middle of the track looking around It wasn't frightened of us and just sat there. After watching it for a while and remembering what we had heard about them we decided it was there to stop us going further my wife filmed it and took a pic and we headed back to the 4wd.
the next day we went to a different place and just did a loop walk part of it went through the Toi canyon thourally recommend going and having a look. Back to the hut for the last night get the fire going and cook some tea.
