It's a very long time since I was last on Rottnest Island - 1977, in fact - and it tells you pretty much all  you need to know about t...

Though yesterday evening the beach was crowded with people getting a sneak preview in golden light, today was the official opening of th...

This is how my long journey started yesterday: Step 1 of three taking me from Waiheke to Perth in Western Australia. It was the lovel...

I was swimming back to the beach this morning when I passed a little blue penguin heading out to sea. I looked at him (possibly her), he (...

I do admire those travel writers who produce stories on the move, flipping open their laptops in airports and on trains to patter out 1000...

It's been a hot, dry summer and Thursday morning was another in a long series of blue-sky days. It was the kind of weather that ma...

Arriving at the mall this morning for the first time on foot, and hence seeing it somewhat differently, I was in full imaginative flight a...