Smoke Chaser
After missing out on our dream overlanding vehicle two times in a row, we decided that we wouldn’t miss our […]
Following on from our post of travel words that ought […]
There’s nothing like a freshly roasted campfire marshmallow. But does […]

Following on from our post of travel words that ought to already exist, here’s some new tramping (the kiwi word for hiking) vocab to inspire you to get into the outdoors.
The Paparoa track on the West Coast has thus far not been the easiest of New Zealand’s great walks to enjoy. Not because it is either more arduous or logistically challenging than other options. It’s simply because it refuses to stay open for very long.
A great day out in the Craigieburn range, sun, blue skies…and a brutal spindrift sandblasting.
Our nation was recently released back into the wild. New Zealand stepped down a grade from its ‘Level 3’ COVID-19 lockdown to a (much more conducive to adventure) ‘Level 2’.* *Basically this meant that we could start hanging around in groups outside our household ‘bubble’ and get out and about tramping and adventuring again. We opted to avoid the classic ‘Into the […]