Memories on Mount Cargill
How can I have been blogging for six months about places to go around Dunedin and not mentioned Mount Cargill...
A Peek into Dunedin’s Dominican Priory
Today I was granted a very special opportunity to take a look at a fascinating part of Dunedin’s history. The...
Take Me Down To Paradise Farm: Part 1 – The Saunderson Puzzle
Today we opted to explore a different area of the Peninsula – the Paradise Track, which meanders down from Highcliff...
Return to the Tekapo Hydro Canal
Our final stop on Cesco’s last great fishing adventure was a return to the Tekapo-Pukaki hydro canal. We’d been here...
Down Home at the Stewart Farm
Today, as promised, we decided to visit the what remains of the Stewart homestead, one of the Harbour Cone Reserve’s...
Native Tree Fuchsia Pie
February is when the fruits of the native tree fuchsia or kotukutuku become ripe. The berries are known as konini...
Toitu Early Settlers 1865 Shoreline Walk
A brilliant Valentines Sunday brought us to the Toitu Early Settlers museum for a talk and walk conducted by archaeologist...
What A Traversty: Fishing the Travers River
Continuing our mission to give Cesco a great Kiwi fishing send off before he returns to Italy, we moved on...
A Wander up the Wilkin
Since this is Cesco’s last big fishing trip before he heads home to Italy next month, we wanted to make...
How We Found Rutherford’s Ruin but Lost Our Way
A misty Monday morning brought us back up to the Harbour Cone reserve on the Otago Peninsula. I hadn’t been...