Cruise of the Ladybug

As you may have noticed, we have not posted much in the last month. Rani and I are back in the UK and Canada, respectively. Rani is visitin...

The yacht Windigo was abandoned on a crossing from Tonga to New Zealand. When we last heard, it was drifting NE from the position at which ...

This piece from the Whangarei Times of April 1, 2013: Lord of the Rings fans are up in arms over the New Zealand Department of Conservat...

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...