South Island Rifle Walkers

Gog and Magog are two huge rock domes that tower over Port Pegasus. You can see them from just about everywhere down there. They've been on our list to explore for years.

It's a bit of a mission to get to Port Pegasus in its' own right, but getting to these peaks is another level on top of that. There's a trail to Magog that starts at the head of Cook Arm, but the tides down there are big. We got our two dinghy's to the trail 2 hours before high tide, giving us 4 hours to make the climb and return trip. The trail starts on the true left at the mouth of the creek feeding Cook Arm and leads you up through thick scrub to the peaks. If you've had experience in the steep stuff it's a fairly straight forward climb up Magog with a scramble at the top. With wet rock and hungover brains we opted to stop just before the last push, she's a long way down off the side. We didn't have time to try the more formidable Gog either. Guess we'll have to go back one day.

We filmed the expedition and put it in part 2 of our Port Pegasus episodes if you want a better look at the route.

Part 2 of our Port Pegasus hunt is ready for release. This one captures the essence of why we love Stewart Island so much. Good times with great mates. Rewarding hunting on the land and bountiful hunting in the ocean. Eating like kings and exploring a truly wild corner of the earth.

It's one of our favourite videos we've filmed, plenty of action and a heap of laughs. It'll be up on our YouTube tomorrow night at 6pm. Chur 🤙

Day 8, 1 deer seen (and spooked) through 6 hunters efforts. Then this whitetail walks into my camp, pretty much shot from the hammock with the GoPro still rolling from a vlog. A stroke of luck to get the boys on the board - finally some venison to go with our fish. A short hike to the coast afterwards had me catching blue cod out of a tree, the hand line was firing! Fillet steak entre with panko crumbed cod fillets for dinner.

This was one of my favourite days I've ever had in the bush, it's definitely the best day I've had in Stewart Island. The video from this day is up on our YouTube channel.
Shoutout to for hooking us up with the . Wicked way to spend a night in such an incredible place. There'll be more hammock camping trips next summer that's for sure.

Next up is Mitch's solo night hammock camping on an isolated headland in Stewart Island. He got dropped off with a handline and a r***e, sourcing his food from the coastline. It ended up being an action packed day with some crazy luck caught on camera.

Episode set for release on our YouTube channel tomorrow night at 6pm.

DISCLAIMER: Scallops were harvested in season, this is a hobby for us so is a delay between filming and posting content 🤙

The boys got it done on the tops - the Stewart Island grey ghost hunted up in the open country, you beauty!

The first week of our hunt in Port Pegasus was unreal with Jono bagging his first white-tailed deer despite the hunting proving difficult. The ocean provided with scallops, crayfish and blue cod on tap. We were well and truly living the dream down there, an outdoorsmans paradise.

Port Pegasus, Stewart Island. Part 1 releasing tomorrow night at 6pm on our YouTube. Get amongst it 👌