Tane Mahuta, Lord of the Forest
Tāne Mahuta, Lord of the Forest, is roughly 1,500 years old and the largest living kauri tree in the world. He’s on Highway 12 in the Waipoua Forest and he will stop you in your tracks. Go see him.
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It’s Lambing Season in New Zealand. The Paddocks Are Chaos. I Love It.
29.5 million sheep. Millions of lambs arriving every spring. New Zealand in lambing season is basically the cutest agricultural event on the planet.
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Cruises & Ocean Travel | New Zealand Travel | NZ: South Island | NZ: Where to Go and What to Do | NZ: Wild and Weird
Swimming with Dolphins in New Zealand (Dusky Dolphins like Christmas Carols)
We weren’t planning to stop in Picton. Then we saw a brochure about swimming with dolphins. Plans changed. It turns out that Dusky dolphins respond very well to Away in a Manger.
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OK, New Zealand Might Want to Kill You
I wrote a whole blog post about how New Zealand doesn’t want to kill you. Then I went through my photos and found the great white shark warning sign. Oops.
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New Zealand Has Almost as Much Coastline as the United States. Let That Sink In.
New Zealand has almost as much coastline as the United States — for a country of 5.3 million people that works out to one kilometre of coastline per 353 people. You can really feel it on the beaches. And some of those beaches have 60-million-year-old boulders on them.
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The Kontiki: New Zealand’s Most Relaxing Way to Fish
I’d never heard of a kontiki before I moved to New Zealand. It’s a motorized torpedo that takes your fishing line two kilometres out to sea while you sit on the beach with a cold beer. Of course it’s a Kiwi invention.
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867 Lambs in Nine Hours: The World of Competitive Sheep Shearing
The world sheep shearing record was just broken by one lamb. The Irishman who did it sheared 867 in nine hours — and he learned his craft in New Zealand. Of course he did.
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Can New Zealand Really Go Predator Free by 2050?
New Zealand wants to eradicate rats, possums, and stoats from the entire country by 2050. All of them. The whole country. I have questions.
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New Zealand Travel | NZ: North Island | NZ: Only in New Zealand | NZ: South Island | NZ: Where to Go and What to Do | NZ: Wild and Weird
Glow Worms in New Zealand: Stars in the Sky
ew Zealand is home to its own unique species of glow worm — and seeing them in a cave, a river tunnel, or the forest at night is one of those experiences you don’t forget.
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Yes, There Are More Sheep Than People in New Zealand. A Lot More.
Before I moved to New Zealand, everyone had the same reaction when I told them where I was going. Every single person. Sheep.
