The crayfish (what we call a rock lobster up north) get pretty big on the South Island. Usually they don’t stay still long enough for a photo.) In Nelson this […]

I realized that, in spite of yesterday’s post title, yesterday’s musings were mostly about getting to Akaroa, and meanderings about memories of past NZ trips. Lemme tell you a little […]

By the time we rolled into Akaroa, we’d been on the move for about 30 hours. Car, bus, plane, bus’ish, plane, plane, car, including a 13 hour stretch from Los […]

I had this feeling that I must have known the answer to this, must have looked it up at some point, but when D asks, I’m kind of at a […]