Happy New Year 2016-17

2016 was a great year:

Resigned from work and left the day after my 60th birthday :-)

Built my man cave :-)

Tried to improve my Sporting Clay target shooting :-|

Hunted some bunnies in the Victorian autumn :-)

Went Barramundi fishing in the top end (to be continued... :-(

Hunted deer in the high country several times (to be continued... :-(

Hunted wild boar in far western NSW :-)

Took a sea voyage across the bottom of Victoria :-)

Caught a Port Phillip Bay snapper :-)

Hunted ducks on the rice fields of NSW :-)

Caught some Murray Cod :-)

Camped, fished, hunted and thrashed a great little quad bike :-)

Utilised all animals for food and had some ripper feeds :-)

Looking forward to ticking some things of the incomplete list in 2017.

Thanks to everyone that helped make it a great year and made these things possible, you know who you are ;-}

Christmas 2016

A Queensland deck for Christmas drinks

 Hermione helping with the gifts

 Hot stuff

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Bendigo to the Gold Coast 2016

Visitor to Lachlan River bush camp near Forbes NSW

 Lachlan River bush camp near Forbes NSW

 55cm Cod  caught inane Lachlan River. Released.

 Visitor at a friends house in Nambucca HeadsNSW

 Coffs Harbour NSW

The Christmas seafood scramble, Gold Coast.

Rats of the Sea

Olympus OMD EM1 Mark II,  Olympus 40-150mm 2.8 PRO lens with 1.4 Teleconverter. Continuos auto focus tracking, 10 frames per second.

Hunt Catch Cook

Recently in the Riverina area of NSW hunting ducks to prevent damage to new rice crops reminded me of the need for the sustainable utilisation of wildlife.

Wild harvested game is infinity more preferable to processed meat. Farmed animals are confined, fattened, transported and processed sometimes in horrific and cruel conditions that may last as long as 48 hours waiting at a processing plant. Wild taken game is ideally enjoying a free and natural life in the wild unaware and in the next second quickly and ethically taken. I do not hunt any animal I can't utilise and mostly they are feral (introduced pests). Ducks in this case are native but with an appropriate NSW hunting license, landholder permission and in a NSW game management program to assist farmers.

Here is a great way to utilise wild duck. Faux Peking Duck

 Tortilla

 hoisin sauce

 Lettuce

 Spring Onion

BBQ'd Duck

 Whrap

 Eat

Duck Breast Kebabs

Adelaide December 2016