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Covid from a Kiwi Perspective

The countries that are succeeding and the countries that are failing. What distinguishes them, and what will happen in the future?

15 Best Places to see the Sunrise in Auckland: Two Inner-City Volcanoes

I watch the sun rise from two of Auckland, New Zealand���s pretty green volcanoes and talk about their history and significance to Aucklanders. Part of a continuing series of posts about sunrises in Auckland.

15 Best Places to see the Sunrise in Auckland, New Zealand: The City's Eastern Beaches

Before the lockdown, I went to several spots in Auckland to photograph the sunrise. Here are some photos and a video from the city's eastern beaches, taken as a strolled from St Heliers to ��kahu Bay via Kohimarama and Mission Bay, visiting the Savage Memorial at Bastion Point / Takaparawh��.

Best Places to see the Sunrise in Auckland, New Zealand: Part 1: The City's Eastern Beaches

Before the lockdown, I went to several spots in Auckland to photograph the sunrise. Here are some photos and a video from the city's eastern beaches, taken as a strolled from St Heliers to ��kahu Bay via Kohimarama and Mission Bay, visiting the Savage Memorial at Bastion Point / Takaparawh��.

What can you find within Five Kilometres of your House?

Holed up in Point Chevalier, Auckland, I explore my local surroundings within a five kilometre exercise bubble, and discover a wealth of hidden places that I'd often ignored before.

Leper Colonies or Lockdown for Covid-19?

A report from the front lines of the invisible war in New Zealand, and a visit to a secret oasis.

Lockdown in Queenstown

Will Queenstown revert to the animals? That's the question my editor sets out to investigate as the mountain resort town enters the second night of a four-week lockdown, with bewildered ducks wondering who will feed them, timid wild cormorants getting bolder and a little sparrow staking a claim to a streetlight!

Train Time for Timaru?

Timaru, New Zealand, used to be a Railway Junction. Why can���t main line passenger rail services be restored in the age of climate change?

From Oamaru to Timaru

In this post, I travel north from Oamaru to the similarly-named town of Timaru, stopping off at Waimate. If Oamaru is the 'whitestone city', Oamaru is bluestone (meaning basalt) and granite, courtesy of a nearby volcano named Mt Horrible. Perhaps the most remarkable attraction is the Te Ana Rock Art Centre, which showcases M��ori cave drawings of the utmost amazingness!

Blown Away in Brisbane

Brisbane is Australia's third largest city. It's the hub of Queensland culture, offering glimpses of the past and of the future.