Watervalley" is "high-country".

That is very very funny. That area of South Aust was once sea bed and has a series of old dunes running parrallel to the sea. In between the ground right through parts of the South East used to be swampy and was made arable by draining. ie get the "Watervalley" part !

Gryph

It probably is true you can hear sambar near the quarters. I saw several sambar near there.

But again, which is different - the countryside or the animal ? The difference with WV is the hunting or should I say poaching is controlled allowing the deer to survive in countryside where they wouldn't have a hope elsewhere in Aust.

Mike

The sort of "pens" where some of these turkeys shoot their "trophies" can be as small as a 100 metres square to a fe acres. Some even manage to stretch themselves to shoot in a hundred acre paddock.

Also a lot of these really big trophies, in particular from NZ, are deer farm deer that towards the end of their velvet productive days get sold off to "deer hunting properties" and then some heroe comes in and shoots "Leopold IV" probably released into the 100 acre paddock the night before.

Gryph

Last year I hunted in South Africa in a fenced property maybe 4000 or 5000 hectares. Also in Zimbabwe on unfenced properties, 50,000 hectares or more.

Guess which area was the more difficult to hunt?