The ‘Square of Moray Place’. Plans by Charles Kettle in the 1840s, as the first chief surveyor of Otago, included a large octagonal area...

In Toitū today I was lucky to hear Dougall Mackay pipe his way through the galleries to mark Saint Andrew’s Day, acknowledging our city’s...

A jog up to Swampy Summit in the mist this morning. We came across many of these prickly plants: Taramea (Aciphylla aurea) or Golden...

The Lindis Pass - for our journey home south, we came via Central Otago over the Lindis. Otago surveyor John Turnbull Thomson traversed...

St Patrick’s Basilica in Oamaru. I had the opportunity to pop inside and see this lovely building as I drove north on Thursday. Completed...

. . I can hear you making small holes in the silence rain . . A snippet from the beautiful poem Rain by Hone Tuwhare. Today as I...

A pocket of lupins about to burst into colour just down from Ramshaw Lane in Arrowtown. Unfortunately these wild flowers are actually an...

An evening walk through Queens Gardens on Tuesday, where almost 4000 named crosses stand for the Otago and Southland soldiers who died...

The remains of the Tobin’s cottage in Arrowtown. Thomas Tobin was an Irishman who came to New Zealand when gold was found in the Arrow...

Buttar’s Peak. Incredible volcanic rocks and views up a little track just off the Mount Cargill Track heading towards the Organ Pipes,...