We always arrive in New Plymouth in the late afternoon, after staying all day at the White Cliffs coastline taking walks, sitting in the sun.…

The stony Raglan beaches were a foretaste of what the sand would be all down the west coast: Black.  The colour varies from black in…

In our Austrian livingroom we can see that Pariokariwa Point every day on a broad format picture that beautifies the wall above our couch. A…

Since Miocene, sedimentation has occurred throughout the Taranaki Region, generating sandstones, soft mudstones, and some limestone. The most impressive Limestone range can be seen north…

The wind farm has a capacity of 64MW using 28 wind turbines. Construction was completed in March 2011,at a cost of 200 million NZ$. Not…

This little town at the northern west coast is a real gem, and the waves are unbelievable (not very high but they roll and roll…

Some things in NZ are walking jokes, like this last century’s music, the old cars, the millions of plastic bags that cross supermarket counters every…

The famous rolling hills of New Zealand:  

Wow!! What a waterfall! Despite its beauty, the Bridal Veil Falls near Raglan (Hamilton) are not really well known. The waterfall is 55 metres high,…

Here we’ve been stepping back in time a bit, accompanying the first settlers and their homes to their new lives here in New Zealand. Some…