Hiking Ngahopua and Hongi’s Tracks, North Island, New Zealand

Again, mist and drizzle shrouded the central North Island this morning, and again Vilis and I tramped through dim native forests thick with a sense of time gone past. Shifting cloud obscured or reveal...

New Zealand: A Green Ravaged Land

In mid-morning, little shags perched on boulders protruding from the near-shore waters of Lake Taupo, their wings stretched to dry in the damp air filled with spitting rain, their slender, curved-tip ...

Ohinetonga Scenic Reserve, North Island, New Zealand

After a brief  morning soak in the hot pools at the Opal Hot Springs campground, Vilis and I travelled south from Matamata, our destination Owhango and the rainforest of the Ohinetonga Scenic Reserve...

South of Auckland, New Zealand

This morning, Vilis and I revelled in the blessed coolness of 18°C in Auckland, the weather a far cry from the circa 30°C temperatures and high humidity we had experienced in Townsville, North Queen...