Bushman Pete's Bushman Center!

We left Mahinapua Lake Hotel this morning and made our way down the West Coast and made an early stop at Bushman Pete's Bushman Center. We were greeted by "Bushman Pete" who was a scruffy looking guy in really short shorts and hiking boots. He led us inside to watch a short film on the history of the Deer Farming in New Zealand and how the methods of hunting and catching them evolved over the years. After this I was told I was going to be feeding a large vicious wild pig some slices of white bread by Bushman Pete.



The large vicious wild pig turned out to be an extremely massive and extremely docile "wild pig". I was instructed to tell it to sit and then give it the bread. I told it to sit and it sat and I gave it bread and then vacated the premises at which point it simply rolled over and lay on it's side on the ground. Following this I was given the opportunity to catch an eel that clearly hates it's life and has more or less given up on things. The eel was sitting in the water and I figured I would have to carefully get close to the water and then quickly grip it and pull it out of the water. This was not the case. I simply walked over stuck my hands in the water and picked it up. It put up minimal resistance to being yanked out of the water. Presumably it stopped caring years ago.



We finished off with a walk around the Bushman Center. We saw some possums and some other wild life and then went out and had some food. I was trying to save money so I didn't have anything but the breakfast some people had looked really hard to pass up on.

At the Bushman Center they had some really large domesticated deer which was really bizarre for me to see as I am used to the normal deer that run away when you approach them at home. These ones just looked at you and would even eat food from your hand.



After about an hour at the Bushman Center we headed down further south to the town of Franz Josef.



When we arrived in Franz Josef we checked in for Ice Climbing the next day and then headed back to get settled at our hostel. Jennie left Malin and I to go Sky Diving so the two of us went and did some grocery shopping.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I won a prize for my costume at the party. I won a free Riverboarding Adventure in Queenstown!