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A river that runs backwards
So we all know that New Zealand is unstable. Literally. As anyone from Christchurch will assert. So it shouldn’t really come as a surprise that with all this up-ing and down-ing and to-ing and fro-ing...
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“You ate my babies and didn’t even know it”– NZ’s Galaxy Fish
This is the Bacon Street Creek on the Otago Peninsula: I spent half my childhood in this creek, going on “expeditions” on the walk home from school – building dams, catching tadpoles and going “mining”...
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Sorry, Denniston Plateau
May has been a bad month. Not only for Planet Earth, but for New Zealand too. For planet Earth, this May is going to go down in history as the first time in 3 million years that the amount of CO2 in...
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New Zealand is faulty
New Zealand is faulty! Geddit? But really, if I’m writing about New Zealand-related stuff, I should probably mention earthquakes. As it turns out, there is a downside to living in this country, and it...
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A sign from God…or…?
Don’t you hate those moments when you wished you had a camera, but you didn’t. Yeah, well had one of those moments recently, when I witnessed a phenomenon that I’d never seen before. It was pretty...
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Rats: Telling the ‘tail’ of Maori voyages across the Pacific
The story goes that the Maori people came here in waka (canoes) from a land called Hawaiki. We don’t know for sure where exactly Hawaiki is – we know it’s somewhere in Polynesia – nor where the Maori...
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Guess what everyone? It’s snowing!
Ohmygodohmygodohmygod it’s SNOWING!! My facebook newsfeed is doing a fine job of keeping me (as well as anyone who may be living under a rock) informed on the weather. I have so far counted...
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Cows can kill Polar Bears
New Zealand has 10 million cows and 31 million sheep – That’s 7 sheep for every person (it used to be 20 sheep per person!), or to use the official unit of measurement: a crap-load of farm animals for...
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Pounamu: Treasure from the first quest to Middle Earth
When my dad was a kid he found these toki (adzes) in a paddock on his family’s farm in Western Southland. They are Maori tools, made out of Greenstone/Pounamu, a relic of pre-European settlement in the...
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New Zealand vs. North Korea: yeah nah
I’d like to take this opportunity to request that the government (John Key, in the bazillion-to-one off-chance that you’re reading this) doesn’t let New Zealand join the USA in a nuclear war against...
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This guy flew before the Wright Brothers
Here’s a guy that never got much recognition for a pretty big achievement: Richard Pearse, the first person to successfully(ish) build a flying machine. Wikimedia Commons Unlike the wonderfully pompous...
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Paua to the People
Ahh paua. Used to make shimmering blue-green eyes in the most beautiful Maori carvings. A classic Kiwi icon in art, jewellery, and is of course used to make the tackiest souvenirs. Wikimedia Commons...
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A river that runs backwards
So we all know that New Zealand is unstable. Literally. As anyone from Christchurch will assert. So it shouldn’t really come as a surprise that with all this up-ing and down-ing and to-ing and fro-ing...
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“You ate my babies and didn’t even know it”– NZ’s Galaxy Fish
This is the Bacon Street Creek on the Otago Peninsula: I spent half my childhood in this creek, going on “expeditions” on the walk home from school – building dams, catching tadpoles and going “mining”...
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The Haka: Is it unfair?
Even the most humble kiwi can be reduced to a goose-bumped, watery-eyed, hair-standing-up-on-the-back-of-the-necked patriot when watching the All Blacks doing the haka. There is something about seeing...
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A post about killing bunnies
When I was about 11 years old my brother and I found two rabbits. That’s not very remarkable seeing as we lived next to a farm, but these were tame lop-eared rabbits. We just walked right up to them in...
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Wakatipu: The lake that breathes
Lake Wakatipu is one of the South Island’s stunning southern lakes, lying on the border between Otago and Southland. The lake has been the backdrop for Hollywood movies, including the Lord of the Rings...
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How to navigate using the Southern Cross – this could save your life
The stars on the USA flag represent states. The stars on the Chinese flag represent the people under the rule of the communist party. The stars on the New Zealand flag represent, well…stars. (Wikimedia...
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The sun doesn’t shine out of my backside, but the moon does
I live in dark damp caves in New Zealand. From far away, I look beautiful, but up close I am quite repulsive. If you are small, I am deadly to you. I set up elaborate traps, and lure you in by tricking...
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