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...

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

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

Another sparkling day off dawned upon a car-less adventurer. There was nothing to do but find another on-foot adventure, and...