Adrift on the Avon

I find myself at a loss in Christchurch. I’m here because someone I love lies in the ICU at Christchurch...

Grandmother’s Glacier

My sister April and I were travelling the West Coast, and I was in charge of adventure. I had snapped...

Approaching Blenheim on my doomed road trip, I had one further detour to make. The lure of a double shipwreck...

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

As I continued southward through the North Island on my great New Zealand road trip, I entered a strange half-known...

A family member needed to make a day trip to Invercargill, so I generously offered to drive and even extended...

We’d cruised up the east coast of the South Island, pausing at Hanmer Springs before traversing the nerve-wracking Rainbow Rd...

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

It was day two of our Wellness Walkers jaunt to Queenstown and we came together after our various Saturday adventures...

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