As jubilados (Spanish for retirees) we’re happy campers in New Zealand.
What is it about waterfalls? Rushing over cliffs. Free-falling. Misting the air. A ceaseless torrent of everlasting hurry that ends, quietly, in placid tranquillity in
Before she put the bus in gear to head up Wilmot Pass to Doubtful Sound, our driver Cat (and she was a cool one), said
Yellow-eyed penguins, the rarest penguins (and most attractive I’d say) in the world, endemic to New Zealand. If you prefer, call them by their Māori
Last days of November, rain string and almost solid, incessantly gathering darkness around it At one in the afternoon November, the “dead end of Autumn,”
In his book NZ Frenzy, Scott Cook starts off his discussion of Paturau (Pah-too-rau) Beach with these words: “Oh my god, no way, oh wow,
“Indisputably the best walk on the South Island,” says Scott Cook about Hooker Valley Track in his guidebook NZ Frenzy. There’s even higher praise—many references
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