Enjoying day one of the duck-shooting season at Kingston is Laura Douglas and her dogs Ash (left) and Ollie. Photo / Daisy Hudson
Enjoying day one of the duck-shooting season at Kingston is Laura Douglas and her dogs Ash (left) and Ollie. Photo / Daisy Hudson
For more than two decades, Laura Douglas has been getting up at the crack of dawn and braving the cold to mark the start of the duck-shooting season.
This weekend was no different, as the Kingston tourism operator headed out to a pond just south of Kingston, to what shelaughingly calls the "mai mai mansion".
With a bar and pool table inside, it was a far cry from her first mai mai.
"It was a couple of car seats, a bit of corrugated iron, and some shrubs."
Originally from Mossburn, Douglas, 32, said she first went out shooting when she was about 8.