Mt Isobel – Canterbury’s Most Popular Climb
While in Hanmer, it seemed only natural that we should tackle the mountain touted as “arguably the most climbed mountain...
Heyward Bound
Ever since visiting Heyward Point with the Wellness Walkers Trust group back in April 2017, I’d been wanting to return...
Torpedoes, Explosions, and an Alleged Slave Ship: Deborah Bay’s Astonishing Past
Deborah bay had been on my list for a long time, due to the remains of a ship with an...
A Rere Good Walk, Part Two: The Lake and The Bay
In my previous instalment, our Wellness Walkers Queenstown road trip group had embarked upon the ambitious Lake Rere loop walk....
Christmas Special: Behind the Scenes and People Who Rock
It’s Christmas season, which means we will all be busy celebrating and adventuring with our loved ones. What better time...
A Rere Good Walk, Part One: The Hillocks and The River
It was day two of our Wellness Walkers jaunt to Queenstown and we came together after our various Saturday adventures...
Into the Chasm and a Horse-Poking Kerfuffle
A fellow adventurer and one of 12 loyal readers for this blog offered to take me out to a Dunedin...
Intriguing City Rise
Dad and I felt it was high time to take another (literal!) page out of Paul Hayward’s More Intriguing Dunedin...
Estates and Inventions on the Buskin Track
Previously, I have documented the various abandoned farmsteads to be found on Otago Peninsula’s Paradise Track, a project which took...
The Secret Treasure of Hillside Wesleyan Church
It was with some alarm that I learned of the pending demolition of the 1893 Methodist church on the corner...