Travels on a small sailing boat in New Zealand 

Time has passed. Much is the same. I’m still in the rigging job and now taking on more responsibility, which I only hope I can rise to....

Evohe heads south from Bluff, direction Snares islands, just over 100 nautical miles from the south coast of New Zealand. The islands are...

Winter sucks it is true and I am oh so envious of you lot enjoying a Northern Hemisphere summer. Enjoy it for me, I'm so missing light...

Three weeks have passed since I moved on board Mahana and there have been some mighty lows, and enough good highs to remind me why I love...

Previously I believed that jet lag was all in the head, only real if you believed it was real just like the tooth fairy. I was wrong,...

18/06/2024 Today was the day, I was flying back to Nelson, New Zealand. Time sometimes slows down and distances feel immense. Last month...

The calm before the killer whale storm a couple hundred miles from the dreaded straights of Gibraltar. I have been scared sailing in the...

Alain de Botton was right, he's always right (if anyone hasn't read 'The Art of Travel', read it now!). He says, you take yourself with...

Crossing an ocean is addictive, there's no other time when life as we know it stops. This is my fourth crossing and each is so different....

I haven't written in a while, in part due to laziness and in part because of an exciting update keeping me busy. I've bought a boat! And...

Weekends spent sailing to the Abel Tasman Park, swimming, paddle boarding, fishing (with varying success). Feeling lucky to be living in...

The stars are still out as I down my bucket of scorching tea. I need tea by the litre to be human in the morning, earl grey preferably to...

I haven’t written in a week. I'm too tired. And my mind generally has to be empty for the words to come, otherwise it races with...

14/01/24 Some days I feel unable to get excited about anything. Today I’m crossing on the car ferry to the South Island. Wellington to...

13/01/24 Today was a day for guilt. It started early when I caught sight of a disposable vape while swimming. It lay about 15 metres down...

The heat haze was thick on the tarmac as I wound through the mountain pass from Taupo to Gismore. The road is deemed to be a right of...

I truly believe that a universal drive for every person is kindness. Maybe I’m naive, too young yet to be hardened by the world, and am...

Travelling alone is strange because I so desperate want connection, crave people around me, savour every hello to a passing stranger. The...

To the detriment of my health, my waking hours are lived in a nicotine haze. Mostly addiction, but partly boredom too, whenever I am...

One always has expectations of a place, and perhaps that's why I came to hate Auckland. Times I cried On the plane When the plane landed...