My wife and I want to plan a trip to New Zealand. We could use some advise about what is the best time of year for visiting? I don't think I will be able to hunt?

Regards,

why not hunting?

for visiting I would go from early January ... Catching the summer there then - I would recommend the south island and spend some time on the Able Tasman Park...

and if You wants to hunt - next time I go there I definetly will go hunting with my brothere there...!!!

Rusty, it depends on what you intend the trip to be about. The autum colours in Central Otago are spectacular and there are the many atractions from vineyards to bungy and ballons to jetboats.

Here are a couple of information centre sites



http://www.queenstownnz.co.nz/

http://www.arrowtown.com/

http://www.alexandra.co.nz/

http://www.southerndiscoveries...W-860CFaNLpgod7muLuA

http://www.fiordland.org.nz/

These are all destination in the southern half of the South Island, the best part of NZ.

Von Gruff.

I like April and May, which is Fall there as it's very pleasant weather wise. Less rain than in their spring months of September and October.

I'll be over there in a couple of weeks for business. February can be hot and humid.

What's July like to hunt Frank? much mud

If you are mainly doing the tourist trail thing then probably March/April would be good. Nice weather , temperatures are pleasant and weather tends to be pretty settled , but still capable of a cold snap.

The alpine scenery is nicer in winter but the temperatures are colder , and climate wetter then.

Offer some information as to where you want to go and when and there will be more specific advice , for sure.

No hunting??? Ok - fishing then!!

March-April is an awesome time to be in New Zealand...

Thank you all for your input!

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Originally posted by TOP_PREDATOR:
What's July like to hunt Frank? much mud

Maybe a little.

There is always stuff to hunt any time of the year here - even if its just spotlighting for rabbits and our possums.

If you just want to add some hunting to your trip its not difficult , and only expensive if you want to chase trophy species.

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Originally posted by Rusty:
I don't think I will be able to hunt.

I'm guessing this might be a wife holiday?

What do you want to do in NZ?

Will help people advise.

If in Winter there is skiing.

In Summer swimming.

Most other things in between.

My wife and I hired a campervan (Muzza loves these ) and drove around South Island in May two decades ago. A long time!

Christchurch was good, might be a lot different now.

A "French" town South of it was interesting, forget the name.

Arthur's Pass. The Highway on the West of the mountains was scenic.

Fly up and have a chopper flight and landing on Fox Glacier.

Queenstown.

Jet boating in a ravine somewhere near there.

We ended up trying to ski on ice near Methven.

But I also did a free range red stag hunt in central North Island first.



Stag was moved out of a gully by quad bike for photos.

Hey Rusty,
Just try and fit in a 2 or 3 day hunt. Will be a terrible waste to go all that way and not hunt anything. If you need some info of where to hunt, I can set you up in the South Island about 2hrs from Christchurch. Hunted there in October of 2011 and got a nice Tahr.

Best Regards
Marius Goosen

Thanks, again guys!