Bleached moa bones projected out from the steep bank of the nearly dry gully. This was exciting, as there were clearly several …

I like to see things for myself. It can give me a sense of place or scale that one doesn’t get from …

What’s a guy to do during lock-down? I’ve chosen to time-travel back to around the first and second centuries AD. At that …

I met Bob Carter after one of my fossil-collecting mates, Duncan McLeod, came across some shell fossils in a ‘marl pit’ on …

In the last couple of days, something of a ‘blue’ has developed among some Western Australian fire experts over ‘Prescribed Burning’ – …

“This is the Giant Stinger tree – avoid it”. Work place health and safety now out of the way, I could then …

Broken River is a Hell of a place to get to. From Christchurch you need to head inland, driving along the road …

Have you noticed? Despite Australia’s on-going fire disaster, there are no shortage of reports telling us to … relax – it’s nothing …

What happens when a seal swallows a lump of limestone? *** The broad theme of my back-packing trip last year was to …

Do we have a submerged ‘Doggerland‘ in New Zealand? In 1950 a boat, the HMNZS ‘Lachlan’ dredged a sample of “lignite” from …