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Seasons Greetings
A belated seasons greetings and best wishes for the New Year to all who stumble across this blog or to those who actually follow it. This is New Zealand’s Christmas tree, the pohutukawa. It bursts...
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Rock and Hard Place
A visit to Alcatraz in October 2012 “You are entitled to food, clothing, shelter, and medical attention. Anything else you get is a privilege.” Such was the welcome faced by fresh inmates to America’s...
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Rodriguez Announces March Shows in New Zealand - Music News at Undertheradar
Reblogged from Blog.SugarMan.org: Rodriguez, star of the most talked about documentary of 2012 Searching For Sugar Man, has been announced to play two New Zealand shows in March. The Detroit based...
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The Twelve Apostles
The highlight of our 6-day visit to Melbourne last week was driving the Great Ocean Road to see The Twelve Apostles, massive limestone pillars that rise 65m out of the Southern Ocean in an area aptly...
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Surfer in Red
I came across this lady surfing at Christmas at Taupo Bay in Northland near the top of the North Island of New Zealand. What drew my attention was not just the red wetsuit against the brooding, stormy...
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Spirit Of New Zealand
It’s a fantastic sight, a tall ship in full sail on the horizon. We sped towards it in our little boat, thoughts of fishing suspended in favour of really getting close-up. No pirate ship this but a...
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Walking Shakespear
At the latest count we have 35 regional parks in the Auckland region, most of them set in glorious countryside along the coast. When it comes to walking, hiking, swimming, running, surfing, mountain...
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Bethells Surfer
We returned to Bethells with some Trinidadians last weekend to show them the raw beauty of Auckland’s west coast. The tide was out and the wet surface of the sand gleamed like a mirror, perfect for...
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Ghostly Greenhithe
Winter is drawing in and with the cold mornings and clear skies comes fog. It blankets the valleys in a wondrous, ghostly disguise and I love to take my camera out into the eerie conditions when the...
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Among the Volcanoes
In 2005 I attended the 10th anniversary of the devastating Mt Souffriere volcanic eruption on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. While there, covering a scientific conference within sight of the...
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Cathedral Cove
There was no alternative but to rise with the sun. That way the photographs would be more interesting, it would be cool for the 2 hour return walk and, importantly, we would miss out on the hordes (up...
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Sugar Man by Rodriguez (The Goldfish Remix)
Originally posted on Blog.SugarMan.org:scribblesnz:Awesomely funky wicked remix Originally posted on Blog.SugarMan.org: View originalFiled under: Beaches & Coastlines
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West Coast Wanderings
The west coast of Auckland, in and around the Waitakere Ranges, is a wild and rugged place quite unlike any other part of New Zealand. It’s one of our favourite places to visit for walks, spectacular...
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Stop That Light!!
I’ve been experimenting with long exposure photography. By that I mean anything with an exposure time of more than about 5 seconds. The photograph of the wriggly rocks above has an exposure time of 40...
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Today’s Sculpture — Only In The World
Made from reinforced plaster and timber, Ramon Robertson’s strange figures are one of the stars of this year’s NZ Sculpture OnShore exhibition currently being held at Fort Takapuna overlooking the...
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Warhorse
My favourite artwork at this year’s NZ Sculpture OnShore is Sharon Earl’s Warhorse, a tribute to the centennial anniversary of the end of World War One, to the soldiers and horses that died. Of the...
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Quarter-acre Weatherboard Paradise
Richard Wedekind is one of the most original artists at Sculpture OnShore, and his Quarter-acre Weatherboard Paradise is one of his most clever works. It’s a commentary on the Kiwi dream of owning a...
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Humpback Whale
Jack Marsden Mayer’s Humpback Whale is made entirely from driftwood (on a steel frame) which he collects from beaches near his home in Wanganui. Driftwood creatures are what Jack does — last exhibition...
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Chinese Roasted Pork Belly with Quick-Pickled Cucumber & Schezuan Roast Potatoes
This dish, except for the Schezuan roast potatoes, which were made up by me, are by Anthony Hoy Fong and are featured in the Great New Zealand Cookbook. This very nicely photographed and produced book...
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Musical Morning
This article was originally published by AA New Zealand for their Summer Directions magazine in 2015. I have added additional photographs to those which appeared originally. On the moonlit quay we were...
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