We’ve booked our flights back home today. We knew that they are only going to be more expensive if we wait even longer. Most interestingly,…

The Boulder Bank is an internationally significant coastal landform created by a combination of sea currents and rocks from MacKay Bluff in a process known…

Unbelievable, isn’t it? :)

When we’ve been there in winter, it has been bitter cold, the walk laying all in the shade of the native forest. Even the water…

That gravel road is almost too much to take but if you have to do 30 km in stones and dust to see something extraordinary,…

The real goal was Separation Point, on which we aim the second time but always miss it whatever so slightly. This time the odds were…

Which walk? Abel Tasman Track, of course. Never give up on that one :)  But the path between Totaranui and Goat Bay had been damaged…

At Waihi, the Abel Tasman Track starts. First detour: Taupo Point, a former pah, but no remaining structures, just some tourists without shoes and kids,…

Anna’s Xmas present proves very useful, its various functions and presets allow the kids to be playful and inventiv at the same time. And it…

Kiting … and of course surfing. These words belong here, what would a wave be without a surfer? Get on your boards, everybody! In the…