Our school has just bought a neat piece of land for their new campus and we had the opportunity to have a first look. Obviously…

An eco friendly, family friendly music festival? Yes, seriously. The Luminate key facts: 4000 hippies (and wannabes) camping for a whole week on top of Takaka…

Finally! When we were here the last time, Verena was still too young to participate in a sea kayak tour (minimum age is 8), but…

This time we took a sea shuttle from Kaiteriteri to Tonga Quarry and had a nice 2.5h walk over to Awaroa with our Australian guest…

Here we have two rare examples of the local beach fauna:

Attempted to climb the sheep hill at Cable Bay. Stopped and returned after 15 minutes. Too hot. No shade up there. Three dead sheep on…

Always worth a stopover to enjoy the flowers. :)

We figured low-tide sandy beaches are the ideal ground for learning how to ride an unicycle. At least it doesn’t hurt that much when you…

It has rained all day long, but fortunately stopped right in time in the afternoon. We enjoyed our javanese dinner at our temporary home and…