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WELLINGTON ZOO ✨

Sammie turns One!! On the lead up to Sammie’s first birthday we chatted over what family traditions we would like to keep / add to in order to celebrate birthdays. For a long while we were going to go to Fiji to celebrate, but Mikey was made redundant shortly beforehand and so (even though it […]

The Pyramids (Victory Beach), Dunedin, OTAGO

This is one of Dunedin’s most remote beaches and it’s absolutely beautiful. I can’t believe I lived in Dunedin for 6 years and never came here (except I can, because it’s quite the mission). Fun fact: Dunedin has like 25+ beaches. I should do a blog post dedicated just to Dunedin beaches, because they are […]

Ross Creek Reservoir, Dunedin, OTAGO

This is one of my favourite places to regularly walk in Dunedin. (Do I say that about every walk? This one I try to do most trips to our home-away-from-home). We even had some wedding photos taken here in the bush, although we were behind schedule so missed out on photos by the reservoir itself […]

Blue Lake Loop Track, St Bathans, CENTRAL OTAGO

St Bathans is a former gold and coal mining settlement in the heart of rural Central Otago. Fun fact: it was previously named Dunstan Creek, but was founded as St Bathans in 1863. It was named by surveyor John Turnball, after the Scottish parish of Abbey St Bathans. By 1887 it had a population of […]

Ototoka Falls, WHANGANUI

This year I wrote a 20 for 2020 list. On that list was 2 things I want to do thia year, inspired by Gretchen Rubin. Now, last year I did a 19 for 2019 list and achieved probably about half of them. So some things are a carry over. And other things are new. One […]

Mangawhero Falls, TONGARIRO NATIONAL PARK

We visited this falls in Winter 2019, but I really wanted to include it in my waterfalls collection because it is one of the most beautiful and accessible falls we have ever visited in the north island of New Zealand. Mangawhero Falls are a 28m ‘plunge’ fall in the heart of Tongariro National Park. It’s […]

Te Ana Falls + Tangoio Falls, HAWKES BAY

24km north of Napier (about a 20-25min drive) on state highway 2 is a cute we hike where you can enjoy these beautiful waterfalls. Kid friendly, (but no dogs) the whole loop is about a 4km/1 hour hike. But leave time for swimming and enjoying the view!! It’s a little bit of a pick-your-own adventure […]

Packrafting Utiku to Mangaweka, RANGITIKEI RIVER

I’m not really sure how to tell this story. Partly because it was one of the best days of my life-but at the same time also one of the worst. Does that even make sense??? Mike and I brought our Alpacka Packrafts about a year in to our marriage, so 2 years ago. Mikey had […]

ROTORUA

We are currently in month 4 of our self-imposed (ok, and bank-account-imposed) overseas travel ban. If you’ve seen the rest of our blog, you will start to understand why. We’ve been married for 2 years, and have visited 6 countries (Australia x 2, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, England, France and South Africa). In 2017 we went […]

MT. COOK NATIONAL PARK

Labour Weekend (21-23 October) 2017-Escape home to the South Island with family ❤ Even though I lived (and fell in love) in the south island for a number of years (ermm, 6) and saw a few amazing places, there are still so so many places in the “mainland” that I didn’t manage to tick off the […]