Duntroon’s Vanished World

It’s another scorcher of a Waitangi Day, and I do like to spend such days appreciating our beautiful land and...

Adrift on the Avon

I find myself at a loss in Christchurch. I’m here because someone I love lies in the ICU at Christchurch...

There are little secrets hidden all over Dunedin. For example, there’s the recently-rediscovered trout hatching ponds at Logan Park. There’s...

Predictably, as I headed south on my great road trip the weather got worse and worse. From bright sun and...

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

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

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...

While in Hanmer, it seemed only natural that we should tackle the mountain touted as “arguably the most climbed mountain...

Our final stop on Cesco’s last great fishing adventure was a return to the Tekapo-Pukaki hydro canal. We’d been here...