Day four of the road trip and our first stop is Tolaga Bay.
Tolaga Bay Wharf; where the wind returns me to my real self.
Day three of the road trip and we revisit Eastwoodhill
Our revised road trip includes a revisit to Eastwoodhill. And I attempt the impossible.
The road trip! It’s day two, part two, and we’re at C Company House.
C Company House tells the story of loss and sacrifice with aroha.
It’s a road trip – day two
We discover, not for the first time, that we are easily sidetracked.
It’s a revised road trip – day one.
Our luck changes and I revisit the beach of my childhood.
When is a road trip not a road trip?
In which our plans are thwarted and our road trip revised.
On Travel
I’m writing this post sitting at my desk at home. I’ve readjusted to the conveniences of modern western life. It was only a few days before I stopped noticing the immense pressure that comes pouring out of my shower at any temperature I choose. And if the weather […]
Plenty in Pongaroa
Route 52 between Weber and Pongaroa wound on and on. There was paddock after paddock, sheep, lots of sheep, flowering broom, the occasional farm house (rare but we did see one or two), very few other cars on the road (make that three), and no shops, no service […]
Home through the boondocks – a photo log
The long road home from Gisborne to Napier takes you through the boondocks. Tiniroto Road, also known as the Inland Road, between Gisborne and Wairoa is almost as far off the beaten track as it’s possible to get in New Zealand without going off road. It’s 104km of […]
Eastwoodhill – a tree lover’s sanctuary
Never heard of Douglas Cook? Me neither. Or at least not until I visited Eastwoodhill, the arboretum he established between the 1930s and 1960s. Cook was a little eccentric for his times. Gardening in the nude and reciting poetry, as well as loving trees, weren’t the usual preoccupations of […]
Jill's Scene 
The korero