The Suffragist Virago and the Stonemason: Patons of Highcliff

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

On the Importance of Place

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...

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

Ever since visiting Heyward Point with the Wellness Walkers Trust group back in April 2017, I’d been wanting to return...

Deborah bay had been on my list for a long time, due to the remains of a ship with an...

In my previous instalment, our Wellness Walkers Queenstown road trip group had embarked upon the ambitious Lake Rere loop walk....