Duntroon’s Vanished World
It’s another scorcher of a Waitangi Day, and I do like to spend such days appreciating our beautiful land and...
Tag: Limestone
A Hundred Years of Otago Industry
Note: This adventure takes place in an area of active industry filled with all sorts of hazards. I had a...
Chasms and Caves of Niue
Having arrived on Niue and settled in, I figured it was time to explore. Rather than knock off the tourist...
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...
The Kepler Part I: Lake to Luxmore
Some of us Wellness Walkers folks were heading down south for a few days to see what the Te Anau...
Where Abel Tasman Met the Māori – And the Story that was Lost
While at the top of the South Island, there was one place I was absolutely determined to visit. So Dad...
To the Gates of Moria for Powelliphanta
We’d cruised up the east coast of the South Island, pausing at Hanmer Springs before traversing the nerve-wracking Rainbow Rd...