Moonlight over Little Mount Peel

It's been a long day has Tuesday, with a trip to Christchurch and back ensuring I left around sunrise and returned after sunset.

As often happens, by the time I arrived home I was both restless and exhausted. Still awake near midnight, I decided to go for a walk down the road to look at the hills under the moonlight.

Looking at this scene, you'd expect it to be a peaceful moonlit night. Far from it! With rutting red deer stags and elk bulls in surrounding paddocks in full roar, the air was full of eerie calls.