Losing your passport – lessons learnt that could help you
A couple of months ago I was in Antigua in Guatemala. Leaving the arrivals hall (having been though passport control) Tim, my husband realised he had lost his passport… thank-god it wasn’t me was my first reaction! Having emptied our pockets a thousand times and exhausted all the options with airport authorities, (communicating in appalling […]
The only way to explore the Hauraki Gulf
I was recently invited to experience day out in the Hauraki Gulf with a new boating company, operating out of the Sandspit marina near Matakana, an hour north of Auckland. Kurt Salmond, the owner and skipper of ‘Kokomo,’ and Gulf Eco Charters has refurbished a spacious fishing boat and fitting twin engines that go like the clappers. […]
Tips for catching the big ones
The winter fly-fishing is hotting up in New Zealand’s Taupo region as the trout begin to make their way upstream from Lake Taupo where they’ve spent the summer. They travel to the high reaches of the exact same river or stream they were born in, to spawn and start the life-cycle again. Typically, the jacks (male […]