HUNTING TRIP.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1925, Page 4

HUNTING TRIP.

TIIK (TANNING CKOC’ODI I.K. -SYDNKY. August ‘2l. A novel holiday lias just been completed by two .Melbourne business men who rcsleil jaded nerves and revived tired spirits by a honking tour in the country near the Gulf of Carpentaria. Relievers in the dictum ol knowing their own ci'.iniry first. thev set out some few mouths ago with the id'ui of undergoing adventurous experiences. Ami thev got I hem. Trapping crocodiles. la i'u ii lit" sharks up to 10-feet and lish from olh to 13 Ih. and wild hoar hunting were a few ol the items in ti'mir programme. They covered 037 R miles by im.lor, I rain, aeroplane and loui in their tour, hut it was between Normantown and the Gull ol ( nrpeularia that most of the sport was provided. In this pari of Australia, rrncediles arc i.!ftitifill. They have the knack of snaring a meal Irom Ihe hanks hv swilchinir their tail round and knock-

inn: their prey inio the water. So ouiek me they villi their movements that oner I lie prev is struck b\ llm tail it is impossible lor it to escape. Months w- ik like clockwork with the tails and are j-radv to receive the |>rev struck by the. tail. Decal sportsmen claim thill these creeadiles can run much unicker llian any man, and they have been known to run a mint down. MOXSTKf! CIDH’KU. Among the li.-li landed hv th.e party, wa- a :J!!Plh 0f.,,,, r. of which the nioulli was so large that a Inn km could have been placed 111 It. When i his part ii-u----lur proper uas lauded. two crabs irawbd out ol ii> mouth. In one day two sharks wer.- landed, aid one put up a p:irtit ul;it‘ly furious liglil. It dislodged the book a> it was about. In he brniighl ashore, and one ol the Mnlbriurne men grasped its tail, while the other hurriedly drew a head oil it with Id- riilo null so dispatched it. Solin' almost fabulous ‘'hags’ ol ducks, wild geese, pigeons and wild turkeys were seemed. Some ol toe greatest thrills of the whole Il ip were provided in the limits for wild pigs, which op a number ol occasions charged members of the party, and forced them to tpike refuge in trees. (IOXIXd K\XCAHOOS.

At one station in tlie* north, throe kangaroos wore kept ns pots. A son of the owner of the station was teaching .'lie of these pet kangaroos In how mid one of the Melbourne men was Irving to make friends with this ’ron, when he was suddenly hit on the ear wirli its paw. He took little nolire of this episode, hut next moment lie received a < rack with hotli of its hind legs. The staid business man thereupon was convinced that a trained kangaroo would lie a worthy opponent for Jack Dempsey. He. at any rate, allowed further overtures of friendship to lapse.

T’-.'se are hut a few of the adventures the two Melbourne men encountered in the north. Now they are satisfied that inis country can offer holidays more exhilarating than any other country in the world, and they are pushing ins claims from seats by the firesides of their friends and the armchairs of their club.