5 exciting New Zealand holidays I’ve got planned
It’s been a while since I last blogged with all the uncertainty around Covid and no travel. But now we’ve settled into Level One I’m enthused about all the holidays in New Zealand I’ve got planned. Like many of you, we had plans to travel to the northern hemisphere and were supposed to be in […]
Wine tasting at Elephant Hill, Hawkes Bay
It just happened we were in the Hawkes Bay on Father’s Day following a race meeting in Hastings where a friend’s horse ran. So the following morning with a heavy, overcast sky we headed to one our favourite parts of the bay, Te Awanga coast to take in the ocean and ended up at Elephant Hill. […]
Wilderness + a fly-fishing guide = heaven
Many of you will know the Central North Island rivers are famous for fly-fishing, with rainbow and brown trout in abundance, but only if you know where to find them, what tackle to use, how to read the water, when the trout are moving up-stream to spawn and much more. I’ve been fishing for years with our son and […]