Part two of my World Journeys southern Indian adventure will be published in the next issue of Let’s Travel magazine, this one starting in the mountainous jungles of the Wayanad region and taking us through to the historic coastal town of Fort Kochi. There was the beauty in seeing such a lush, green side of…
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Indoor Skydiving, Jet Skiing & Rainforest Adventures On The Gold Coast – My Herald Article + Top 50 GC Photos
A couple of weeks back the Herald On Sunday published hands down the least flattering photo of me ever seen in a newspaper, but it’s OK. I was lamely trying to adjust my goggles while indoor skydiving on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. In the process I looked like a puffed-up blimp with the…
The Best Jungle In The South Pacific – My Top 50 Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands Photos
Near Tenaru Falls, Guadalcanal. The Solomon Islands may be poor, in some cases, desperately so. And they may also be surprisingly expensive too. Then there’s the not insignificant matter of the civil unrest from the turn of the century. But none of this means you shouldn’t go, nor does it mean there aren’t some very…
New Zealand’s Forgotten World Railway – My Latest Let’s Travel Mag Article + Top 50 Photos
The current issue of New Zealand’s number one travel magazine, Let’s Travel, features my piece on New Zealand’s Forgotten World Railway. Visit LetsTravelMag.com for subscription details (including very well priced digital rates) to read the article. In short, imagine a combination of lush rainforest, remote and enormous farms, abandoned settlements and dozens of tunnels and…
Dodging Kangaroos: NZ Herald Queensland Outback Road Trip + My Top 60 Photos, Incl 19th Century Mansions, Farm Stays, Rainforests, Mud Baths & Statues Of The Bee Gees
The view from Bunya Mountains National Park. My longest ever published travel article was in Tuesday’s New Zealand Herald – a 3000-word epic about a Queensland road trip I did in May. Given I drove more than 2000ks, it seemed appropriate to go whoppingly large for this piece – I hope you like it! The…
Why Waitomo’s About So Much More Than Glow Worms – Let’s Travel Article + My Top 50 Waitomo Photos
The ravine near the Mangapohue land-bridge. In the April-May issue of Let’s Travel (New Zealand’s #1 travel magazine) is my feature on Waitomo in the central North Island. Visit letstravelmag.com to subscribe and find out about all the things to do here beyond the seeing the glow worms that first established Waitomo as a tourist…
My NZ Herald Room Check Article: Royal Mail Hotel, Dunkeld, Rural Victoria
Royal Mail Hotel, Dunkeld, Victoria* Almost a year ago I stayed in a town in rural Victoria so small that the hotel is essentially the entire town. With only 461 people calling Dunkeld home, a substantial chunk of that number have some connection to the historic Royal Mail Hotel. If you click here you can…
Malaysia’s Tioman Island – My Herald On Sunday Article + My Top 50 Tioman Photos
A couple of weeks ago the Herald On Sunday published my feature article on Tioman Island in Malaysia. In case you missed it, here’s the link: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=11639305 In the article you’ll hopefully get a sense of why I love this island so much and keep finding myself going back. There’s also an incident involving monkeys,…
Mangarara Eco Lodge, Hawke’s Bay: My Top 50 Photos From A Very Different Sort Of Farm
Standing with my head dangerously close to the cow’s buttocks, I’d been assigned the task of attaching the suction cup apparatus to the teats. I hadn’t milked a cow since the 80s and it was oddly satisfying how each cup would so neatly swallow their assigned teat. Equipment attached and with a brief surge of…
NZ Herald Intrepid Travel South India Article #3 – Historic Fort Kochi & The Jungles Of Periyar National Park – Top 50 Photos
Last week the New Zealand Herald published the third and final chapter of my southern India adventure from October 2014. Based on Intrepid Travel’s 16 day “South India Unplugged” tour, this was one of the most intense, wild, mayhemic and beautiful travel experiences of my 10-year travel writing career. The events of the article…
Why Robin Williams Loved Rotorua – Top 50 Rotorua Photos Incl. The Black Swan Boutique Hotel
Rotorua’s Black Swan Boutique Hotel. When Robin Williams died, one of the best stories to come through to my Newstalk ZB radio show was from a Kiwi couple who’d once bumped into the actor in Rotorua. They were riding their mountain bikes through the city’s famed Redwood Forest (5600ha, officially named Whakarewarewa Forest) and had taken…
Waikato’s Stunning Blue Spring – 12 Photos From 1 Of NZ’s Hidden Gems
The Blue Spring, Waikato Said smugly, I’ve been raving on about The Blue Spring in the Waikato for months now. Not like these Johny-Come-Blue-Spring-Latelys at Stuff.co.nz who’ve today asked the question: “Is it NZ’s best kept secret?” Months! Four to be exact. But still, months! Truth be told, like most Kiwis I’d never heard of…
