Introduction New Zealand has a talent for making you feel specifically, personally victimised by its weather. Not in a malicious way — more in the way a cat ignores you while being perfectly friendly to everyone else in the room. The mountains are right there. They...
Introduction At some point during your first look at Hokitika Gorge, you will instinctively reach for your phone to check whether the camera’s colour settings are doing something unusual. They are not. The water is actually that colour. That specific, saturated,...
Introduction New Zealand is not a country that struggles to impress. After a week on the West Coast you’ve seen glaciers, impossible turquoise gorges, mirror lakes reflecting snowcapped peaks, and beaches made of black iron-sand under dramatic storm skies. The...
Introduction There’s a particular kind of person who shoots off a boat the moment it docks, overtakes everyone on the jetty, and disappears up a trail at a pace that suggests they’ve either trained seriously for this or simply haven’t registered yet...
Introduction There’s something deeply suspicious about waking up before sunrise on vacation. Normal people roll over and go back to sleep. Ambitious hikers lace up boots and voluntarily walk uphill for several hours. And yet, here we are. A Morning hike at Ben Lomond...
