“It's something that few people are lucky enough to experience.”
She and her two friends, who are in NZ on working holiday visas, had no clue that a moose sighting had recently been reported in Fiordland, also on the Kepler Track.
“We didn't know anything about that,” she says. “I didn't think it was possible to see such large mammals—we were mostly expecting to see birds,” Bourgeois says.
“That's why my first reaction was to wonder whether it could be another animal, like an elk, for example, because I didn't know there could be moose in the Park.”
However, after doing some research and comparing animals, Bourgeois, who's very familiar with moose, says “the evidence really leans more toward it being a moose”.
The size of the animal and its…
