s/v Perry

Zorbing was invented here: rolling down a hill in a big rubber ball filled with water Mark and Conrad finally got to test out their new...

Big kauri tree So this month we find ourselves "On the Hard." That's boater speak for having the boat pulled out of the wa...

Perry on the hard, complete with a grand staircase Like all immutable rules of nature, including the Laws of Thermodynamics ,  the Law o...

Giant sand dunes at 90-mile beach As we sit here near Russell, confined to the boat by driving rains, the kids are tired and a bit crank...

Hundertwasser toilets in Kawakawa They say 'zed' here in New Zealand rather than 'z'. They also don't measure di...

Sunset from our anchorage in Opua It's Day 3 of our passage from Fiji to New Zealand and we have run out of the quiche we made b...

Conrad the fish at 'Grand Canyon' in Namena. It goes down a long way (further than we could see). Matt would like me to write a...