forests

Over ten years ago I taught visiting American classes at the University of Queensland. The itinerary of one lucky class was to …

Honey, honey, honey – it seemed Adygea oozed the stuff. Everywhere we looked it seemed someone had set up a road-side stall …

At Curio Bay near the southernmost point of New Zealand’’s South Island, you can walk around the remains of a Jurassic fossil …

I loved my Singapore Airlines ‘Elite Gold’ card. Suddenly, International airports transitioned from being places where food and drink were wildly overpriced, …

Forests that have disappeared so completely that you would hardly believe they really existed, have long fascinated me.  When I left my …

A gem in the heart of Christchurch is Riccarton Bush (sometimes called Deans Bush). It’s a patch of original kahikatea forest, just a …

Early on a cool Sunday morning I sipped my latte outside Relishes Cafe, Wanaka, and thought the immediate view could be better. …

The white sands and muds surrounding Blue and ‘Grey’ Lakes at St Bathans were laid down in a braided river (Manuherikia Group; …

There is a Maori legend than when one of their ancestral canoes (the Te Arawa) approached New Zealand after traveling from its …

Most conifer leaves have just one vein, whether they be the needles of pines, or the much broader leaves of some tropical …