When I reached Waitomo, I was really looking forward to taking photos of glow-worms in the world-famous caves there. But it nearly wasn’t to be… It seems the main caves have decided that in the rush to get as many (ticket-buying) folks through the system as possible, taking of pix is no longer allowed in [...]
Skipping a week or so in the adventures just to try and catch up a bit (net time is being very elusive at the moment – just too many good things happening a little too quickly, and limited opportunities for getting online in between!)
Just back from being a very drowned rat on Tongariro N Circuit. [...]
Yes, I know there is a distinct lack of images in the posts at the mo.
Apologies about that – I’m having trouble keeping up with a) a month’s backlog of email from being out in Antarctica with no access and b) limited options for net access with my laptop. It seems net is slow, expensive [...]
Questions about weather on Stewart Island are a little bit different to most places. It’s not so much a question of “what will the weather do?” so much as “Will there be a break in the rain today?” or if by rare chance it’s not actually raining yet, “When do you think the rain will [...]
All too soon we’ve left the lack ice and are heading back to New Zealand, at the end of the Antarctic trip.
The southern ocean is being unusually calm but it’s still enough to upset those suffering from sea-sickness.
We make two brief stops en-route back to New Zealand.
Campbell island was great for seeing several Royal Albatross [...]