In mid-December, we went on a family adventure and tramped (hiked) across New Zealand along with several of our crazy friends here. Yes, I know that ...
Purakaunui Bay
In late January, I was able to dash over to The Catlins for part of a day to a place that I hadn't yet visited - Purakaunui Bay, which is just ...
Lake Marian
Just a few days before Christmas and a couple of days after Muir arrived (and, he still had a bit of jet lag), we took a day trip to Fiordland ...
Invercargill
I've been wanting to write this post for several months. But, being the photographer, I also wanted some nice photos to go along with my story. Which ...
Sunburned
(or, thoughts on atmospheric chemistry...) As usual, we were out tramping this weekend. We hiked across New ...
Mt. Burns Tarns
Like many of our weekends, we were off hiking recently - this time to the Mt. Burns Tarns. A tarn is a small pond or lake that sits on the side of a ...
Otago
A few weeks ago, we finally made it to the nearest big city of Dunedin and the Otago Peninsula. As usual, the weather was alternately windy, sunny, ...
Christchurch Milford Tour Gallery
I'm not going to write a whole lot in this posting, and I'll leave it to my photographs to tell the story. Returning to our saga, in the first half ...
Queenstown
We were fortunate to spend some time in the area of Queenstown and north of there a few weeks ago. As with most of New Zealand, it's a stunning place ...
Catlins IV
Here's another post about The Catlins! It's nice to have this pleasant area so relatively close to us, starting less than an hour to the east of ...