Cruise of the Ladybug

We were determined to bag one more peak before returning to Ladybug, so we chose Mt. Ruapehu in the Tangariro National Park. Well, we didn...

Chris almost caused me a breakdown when he slipped off a rock at Castle Hill, bouldering while I was not looking. As the weather forecast f...

We stayed two nights at the Mt. Somers Domain campsite, a very reasonably priced campground with good facilities located close to the Mt. S...

We were enamoured with the port town of Oamuru, North Otago. The nineteenth century  buildings in the town centre were constructed from l...

The owner of the Moeraki Boulders Campground advised us to get to the beach at sunrise. Somehow we woke up on time, dragged ourselves from ...

 Chris finally checked off " I want to see penguins " from his bucket list. The best sighting we had was at Curio Bay, from the p...