Dredging up the Past on Aramoana Spit

Spring of 2021 saw some wild weather in the south, with storms and high winds featuring strongly on our radars....

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...

We’d finally emerged from the chrysalis of country-wide quarantine into a long winter weekend. Now that adventure (within reason) was...

I was in New Plymouth on ancestry business, but that didn’t mean I couldn’t take some time out to visit...

We had finally made it, Auntie and I, to the place where our forebears had first become Kiwis. Here we...

Having arrived on Niue and settled in, I figured it was time to explore. Rather than knock off the tourist...

I had to go back to St Clair. There were historic tidbits I’d come across when researching my post on...

All right, it’s adventure reset time. 2019 has not been my year – I’ve been stressed out, bad things have...

Another ANZAC Day provided the setting for a now-traditional adventure between Dad and I. Dad suggested a road trip to...

I was in England when the 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake struck my South Island home. It was hard to be so...