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Photographs and stories by Invercargill photographer Rick Harvey

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postcards from the north island pohutu geyser

Motorhoming

Beautiful Postcards From The North Island – Part 2

Is it really two months since I posted my first collection of Postcards From The North Island? Mmmm – yes it is! The first collection was published here on June 21, and in spite of my best intentions there have been no further Postcards From The North Island. However, after...

ferry reserve as seen from the old manawatu gorge bridge

Motorhoming

Ferry Reserve Freedom Camping Area

  Back in April I wrote a story called Our Favourite Freedom Camping Sites – Part 1. This isn’t Part 2 – that is still to come – probably after we finish our jaunt around the lower half of the North Island in a few weeks. So please watch this...

north bank otaki river sunset

Motorhoming

Postcards From The North Island

Postcards From The North Island Growing up I remember listening to a radio programme by Alistair Cook called Letter From America. I loved his mellifluous voice, and the stories he told, and often thought it would be wonderful to be able to do something similar. But alas – I’ll have...

overlooking the catlins river at hinahina reserve - the best parking spot one of our favourite freedom camping spots

Motorhoming

Our Favourite Freedom Camping Spots – Part 1

This is a story about some of our favourite freedom camping spots – or at least about five of the 26 freedom camping spots we have stayed at so far in the South Island during our motorhome travels. More specifically, it gives me an opportunity to showcase some of the...

Roads Less Travelled - A tui feasting on flax at the Bluff Hill Lookout

Travel

Roads Less Travelled

As we spent Christmas at home this year, and as the weather was really kind to us, we decided to do a few day trips on roads less travelled (by us anyway) in Southland. Roads less travelled – just an excuse to show off images of our beautiful Southland So,...

the craypot world famous at jackson bay scaled

Travel

Jackson Bay Sandflies Are Huge!

The Jackson Bay sandflies are huge…. But this is not actually a sandfly. It is a urepetala carovei…a New Zealand bush giant dragonfly. This incredible flying machine can grow up to 86mm long and have a wingspan of 130mm. We spotted this sunbathing on a log at Ocean Beach, just...

The Frymonger at the Farmers Market Oamaru

Travel

Oamaru – More Than Meets The Eye

More than meets the eye We’ve been back from our last motorhome trip for over two weeks now, and it was only yesterday that I finally got around to checking some of the photographs I had taken since leaving the West Coast. After a couple of weeks in Greymouth looking...

oculus in the pantheon rome

Travel

I’ve Gone Full Circle With Lumix

Well, it seems that with the recent purchase of my new micro four-thirds Panasonic I’ve gone full circle with Lumix. Eight days ago New Zealand went into Covid-19 Alert Level 4 as the first case of the Delta variant appeared in Auckland. Lockdown –  maybe not an ideal time to...

kakapotahi views

Travel

Mist Opportunities

You may think that mist opportunities is a miss-spelling, and should be missed opportunities. In fact, it’s not wrong. Whenever you travel up or down the West Coast and back through Cental Otago via Haast Pass in dismal weather you are bound to see many mist opportunities. Here is just...