Groper (hapuka) fishing 20 kilometres off the Canterbury Coast, navigating the rugged coast of southern Fiordland, and circumnavigations of Rakiura (Stewart Island) and even D’Urville Island. Not bad for a young bloke in a 3.6m inflatable dinghy with an 18hp Tohatsu engine on the transom. And you can add to all this his expansive hunting trips for deer, tahr, chamois and other animals game throughout the South Island.
All of this provides rich video material for the fast-growing NZ Wild Adventures YouTube channel, run by Christchurch-based 25-year-old Tasman Denize. While there’s a seemingly endless parade of boating, fishing, diving and hunting material on YouTube and other social media platforms, Tasman’s NZ Wild Adventures channel continues to strike a chord with viewers due to its simplicity, humour and remarkable adventures.
Tasman has become something of an accidental social media star; those very basic videos, filmed on his phone and posted to YouTube a couple of years ago to record memories of trips and adventures with his great mate Arved Hertwich ‘for a bit of a laugh’, are now being viewed anywhere between
