One last activity before we leave the luxurious and adventurous Makoura Lodge: claybird shooting. We’ve done a 4×4 Safari with Hugh, a horse trek with Kimberley, and now it is Chris’

“Do you want to go for a horse trek?” Kimberley from Makoura Lodge asks us as we’re working in the fancy conference room of the lodge this morning. Hell yeah, we do! This is the kind

We might be off the beaten track somewhere in the remote Ruahine Ranges, but little do we know that a track is going to start beating us on a 4WD off roading adventure today! The road to a rough adven

We spotted them in the distance when we first arrived in Palmerston North: the wind farm. Sat on the hills of Te Apiti above the Manawatu River it looks like it could be the most scenic wind farm we&#

Palmerston North: what’s going on here? So a couple of days ago we arrived in the North Island city of Palmerston North, stayed in the grand historic hostel of the Railway Hotel Backpackers, and

We are stoked! After a bit of last-minute planning last night, we have organised to go to Foxton Beach to learn how to kite landboard this morning. With a northwesterly wind of 13 knots and low tide a

Well, we’ve been in the Gumboot Capital of the World for a whole day now and have discovered what it means to really be in the gumboot capital. For those of you who don’t know, a gumboot i

“I don’t know what I been told!” Yes, that’s right, today we are going to the National Army Museum. Who knew that about 30-minutes from Taihape is the base of the New Zealand army in Wai

It’s decision time. The forecast for Ohakune and Mt Ruapehu is looking pretty sh*t for the whole week, so we could sit around waiting for a window of opportunity to do some skiing or mountain bi

It’s raining sideways! Since arriving in Ohakune yesterday we haven’t even seen Mt Ruapehu, the ski field mountain that Ohakune sits at the base of. It’s fair to say that we are not