Road to Pukerangi

A day off, bright sun, no pressing responsibilities? Must be time for an adventure! I planned accordingly, and with haste....

Darwinian Geology at Ward Beach

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

So I’d made it to Auckland. Day one had been a write-off, with a cancelled flight and a complete failure...

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

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...

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