The Kepler Part II: Sun, Snow and Sandflies

Six intrepid travellers had set off to conquer the Kepler Track, one of New Zealand’s famed Great Walks. We had...

A Peek at Pukehiki Church

In my Peninsula adventures, there’s been one place I’ve often passed by but never stopped to investigate. This place is...

There really is no end to Dunedin’s little secrets, and that was proved anew on a recent Sunday when I...

Waitangi Day meant a day off, and that meant a fitting adventure had to be found. I fixed on Huriawa...

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

We had taken in the Hanmer Plain and conquered the most popular peak in Canterbury, so now it was time...

A fellow adventurer and one of 12 loyal readers for this blog offered to take me out to a Dunedin...

Previously, I have documented the various abandoned farmsteads to be found on Otago Peninsula’s Paradise Track, a project which took...

Today we wandered far afield to an area I’ve been wanting to explore for some time – The Catlins, its...

I have a confession to make: I’ve never been to Larnach Castle. And today, I once again would not see...