Firth of Thames: the gentle way south

Lower Hutt: a river runs through it, called – as you’d expect – the Hutt River, although it was known...

The flats toward the headwaters of the Hutt River (named after the Chairman of the New Zealand Company, Sir William...

There was a time, not so long ago in the grand scale of things, when the whale-watching industry in New...

There is a magical place in New Zealand where the mountains literally meet the sea – as if a fairytale...

Christchurch is gorgeous. Its urbane, English-inflected rivers and stone buildings style landscape genteelly masks a southern spirit that has seen...

The majestic Whanganui river has an ignominious end where it joins the sea.

Port Fitzroy is only 25 kilometres from Tryphena but it took us nearly three hours to drive there.

Locals describe living on Kawau Island as ‘quiet.’

Gisborne intrigues me. It’s a mix of tradition, culture and nature.