Travels With a Camera - Peak Images » New Zealand

A Devonport hide-away and Rangitoto Island – Auckland’s nearest and most recent volcano!

PeakImages — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:27:12 +0000

Secret Garden B&B, Devonport

Having fallen on my feet with an I-site that’s helpful and knowledgeable in Devonport, I ended up at the one and only affordable B&B in Devonport – the Secret Garden on Eton Terrace. Run by the friendly and knowledgeable Xenia and Tony, it was really nice to have [...]

Rainbow Warrior and Mercury Bay/Alderman Isles (Coromandel) a wash-out

PeakImages — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:23:14 +0000

I’d been hoping to continue the diving adventure on the Rainbow Warrior, but after 4 days of phoning 3 different operators and always being told that conditions were too rough to operate (“we’ve got 2.5m swell in just the bay, let alone out in the ocean – so we’re not going out to [...]

Diving the Poor Knights Islands, Tutukaka, Northern New Zealand

PeakImages — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:26:08 +0000

Have been taking a bit of time out to enjoy the Poor Knights Islands – off Tutukaka, Northern New Zealand.

I hired some Ikelite underwater flashes, and took them to a place rated as one of the Top 10 Dive sites in the world by the late Jacques Cousteau. It’s somewhere I’ve been [...]

Greenglow – glow-worm photography and caving

PeakImages — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:39:02 +0000

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 [...]