On the Brink of the Tasman Glacier

Having explored the Hooker Valley and saluted New Zealand’s highest mountain, we emerged from another chilly night in our stubbornly-hitched...

Where Abel Tasman Met the Māori – And the Story that was Lost

While at the top of the South Island, there was one place I was absolutely determined to visit. So Dad...

Winter has come, and suddenly my news feed is full of scenes of ice and snow. I’m not one to...

Waitangi Day meant a day off, and that meant a fitting adventure had to be found. I fixed on Huriawa...

I was offered another tantalising piece to the puzzle that is Otago Peninsula’s early settler history when a Highcliff landowner...

After two and a half years, I figure it’s about time I try to explain why I chose to focus...

We’d cruised up the east coast of the South Island, pausing at Hanmer Springs before traversing the nerve-wracking Rainbow Rd...

We had taken in the Hanmer Plain and conquered the most popular peak in Canterbury, so now it was time...

Whisked away for a sneaky weekend in Christchurch, I was asked if there was anything I wanted to do between...

I wasn’t going to write about Lake Rotoiti, because after all I posted about it almost exactly two years ago...