Saturday 2 August 2025 Steve and his wife, Karen, picked me up at 0515 and drove us to the Auckland Airport. Steve and I caught the 0640 flight to Queenstown. Arriving just after 0830 we walked to the nearby car park and picked up my truck, then headed south down the east side of Lake […]
We spent last weekend in Christchurch and I took the opportunity to visit The Giant’s House in Akaroa. This incredible place is the work of artist Josie, who fell in love with the site many years ago and has since restored the house and gardens and made hundreds of whimsical mosaic sculptures in the garden. […]
A couple of weeks ago we had the opportunity to take a day trip to Mou Waho, a small island at the northern end of Lake Wanaka. It was a cold and foggy morning when we met at the pier in Wanaka. All the documentation stressed we be there 15 minutes before boarding at 9am […]
Friday 21 March 2025 We were on the plane, about to fly to Auckland for the weekend when the captain came on the PA system stating there had been a bit of an incident and they were checking with Auckland to see if the plane was safe to fly. It turned out some clown had […]
Thursday 6 March 2025 It’s around 11.00 am when we leave our place at Queensberry, near Wanaka. Right now it’s really dry with a contrast between the green irrigated paddocks and the almost white unirrigated ones. The hills are bare and almost black in places. We cross Lake Dunstan at Cromwell, stopping to look at […]
Thursday 17 August 2023 Mid-morning I picked up my good mate Dave from the Queenstown Airport. With Dave was Jim from Ireland. Both ex-military, they had met through work some years ago. Jim was wanting to come to NZ to go thar hunting and here he was absorbed in the great scenery surrounding Queenstown. We […]
The sun sets at Glentanner Station, near Mt Cook Reflections on Lake Pukaki Once arid land with irrigation now runs thousands of cows just south of Twizel Ahuriri River running from the Lewis Pass past Omarama The Clay Cliffs, created out of layers of silt and gravel deposited by glaciers some 20 million years ago […]
1 November 2020 It’s been a while since we have been anywhere to write about, having being locked up in NZ since March. Sylvia headed off to Singapore in early October to spend some time with her team there. I have taken the opportunity to head down and visit our good friends, Ross and Helen, […]
Saturday 4 May 2019 After an easy drive up from Wellington yesterday we settled into the shearer’s quarters at the MacDonnell farm, not far from Ohakune. With its 3 bedroom house and several single rooms in a row to one side, sheets on the beds, heaters in the rooms and even electric blankets, it is […]
April 2019 I was privileged to be asked by my good, long-time friend, Dave, to help out in the making of a hunting movie to be filmed in both the south and north islands of New Zealand. The company making the movie is Swedish based and makes red dot sights for rifles, pistols and shotguns. Aimpoint.com […]