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...
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An Eely Encounter at Lake Rotoiti
I wasn’t going to write about Lake Rotoiti, because after all I posted about it almost exactly two years ago...
Heyward Bound
Ever since visiting Heyward Point with the Wellness Walkers Trust group back in April 2017, I’d been wanting to return...
Torpedoes, Explosions, and an Alleged Slave Ship: Deborah Bay’s Astonishing Past
Deborah bay had been on my list for a long time, due to the remains of a ship with an...
A Rere Good Walk, Part Two: The Lake and The Bay
In my previous instalment, our Wellness Walkers Queenstown road trip group had embarked upon the ambitious Lake Rere loop walk....
To Beatties and Boulder Beach
Once again it was time to tackle Otago Peninsula’s Paradise Track, which on my last visit had yielded so much...
Fun and Fungi on the Government Track
Today our wanderings took us to an area I hadn’t visited in several years, but had enduring fond memories of....
Full Circle at Okia
Five months I’d been out of New Zealand. I’d walked in the millennium-old footsteps of pilgrims, I’d watched the sunset...
A Stomp Around Stodmarsh
Time for the next stop on my great English road trip, and since I’m so unfamiliar with the local geography...
An Authentic English Autumn on the Hythe Military Canal
As I continued on my great English road trip, I settled on a new goal. Autumn had come, turning the...