Grandmother’s Glacier
My sister April and I were travelling the West Coast, and I was in charge of adventure. I had snapped...
Walking Boundaries with The Lawrence Chinese Community
The town of Lawrence, Otago’s gateway to the gold fields, is one place I’ve always wanted to explore more fully....
Abandoned Dreams on the Waipapa Dunes
Having arrived at Waipapa Point with Dad for our ANZAC Day adventure, we’d checked out the light house and learned...
Catlins Calling
We’d finally emerged from the chrysalis of country-wide quarantine into a long winter weekend. Now that adventure (within reason) was...
The Wreck of the Gairloch
I was in New Plymouth on ancestry business, but that didn’t mean I couldn’t take some time out to visit...
What Built Cameron’s Blockhouse?
After a pleasant night in Whanganui it was time to once more head south, this time along State Highway Three....
A Hundred Years of Otago Industry
Note: This adventure takes place in an area of active industry filled with all sorts of hazards. I had a...
From Old Plymouth to New: Voyage of the Timandra
I’d seen where my ancestors the Parsons first stepped on to New Zealand soil, but that was just the first...
The Most Surprising Steamship
There are little secrets hidden all over Dunedin. For example, there’s the recently-rediscovered trout hatching ponds at Logan Park. There’s...
The Cultural Misunderstanding that Killed: Featherston at War
There’s been a lot of attention in the media recently about detention camps or internment camps, how they should be...