The Bay of Islands at the northern tip of New Zealand has many secluded beaches as long as you have a boat to find them. This beach is on one of the ...

Today’s photo is small child riding the ski lift at the Whakapapa skifield on Mount Ruapehu in Tongariro National Park, New Zealand. I love the look of wide-eyed wonder. For full disclosure, ...

Now I am not saying that the people of New Zealand are crazy, but since the Kiwis invented bungie jumping and zorbing you do have to wonder. If you are not familiar ...

This speedboat is braving the choppy seas to go through the “Hole in the Rock” in the Bay of Islands area of northern New Zealand. My somewhat lareger boat did not try ...

I wish I had a better picture of the Cathedral in Christchurch, but of course as I stood in front of it I could not imagine it in ruins. From the pictures ...

This is the second photo I have posted of Hot Water Beach on New Zealand’s North Island. This is a beach above a natural hot spring. At high tide you dig yourself ...

Auckland, New Zealand has a wonderful museum that is nominally about transport and technology but also provides a great look into New Zealand’s history and culture. One thing I particularly enjoyed was ...

This is the  Martha open pit gold mine in Waihi New Zealand. To give you a sense of scale, when the mining is finished it will be flooded to form a 634 ...

I was watching the most recent Narnia movie this weekend (Prince Capsian) as the Pevensie children stepped off a train platform in London and appeared to come out of a cave in ...

This month’s travel wallpaper comes from Cathedral Cove on the Coromandel Peninsula of New Zealand’s North Island. Regular width (1600 x 1200) / without calendar Widescreen (1920 × 1200) / without calendar ...