Wet Sand

As covered previously , our recent tramp around Lake Waikaremoana lived up to the Great Walk title, but was slightly let down by not so grea...

While the malls were heaving with zombie shoppers just before Christmas we escaped to the remote Te Urewera National Park to tramp for four ...

December has been quiet on the blogging front.  I was preoccupied with the final conclusion of a very stressful three year long battle which...

Thankfully New Zealand has recently dropped two of the silliest give way rules  in our Road Code.  Maybe a few more could be looked at in th...

These and other pieces of furniture and sculpture are by young Californian designer Robby Cuthbert Contour Coffee Table Contour L...

It wasn't quite a horse head in the bed but the message was clear: 'These cat biscuits you are trying to feed me?  Unacceptable....

I started barbecuing some home made beef patties this evening and as the smoke wafted away I turned around to see this.

We live on a narrow, winding rural road with a 100km/h speed limit.  There are no footpaths, not even a gravel shoulder, just steep sided di...

With the latest IPCC Report predicting more extreme weather for New Zealand and elsewhere in the world, water security will become ever mor...

This photo by Ramon Arellano  shows footprints on a near vertical limestone rock face in Cal Orko, Bolivia.  This cliff would once have bee...