“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” – John Muir Tranquility soaks into your tried bones in the cool, deep, silent embrace of Akaroa Harbour. Misty rain swirls around the hills and a rainbow simmers in the golden morning […]
The Kaikoura Earthquake Just after midnight on November 14th, 2017 the Kaikoura area suffered a severe 7.8 magnitude earthquake. The earthquake started about 60 kilometres south-west of Kaikoura near the town of Culverden and spread from fault to fault along a 150 km length of the northeast coast of the South Island. Extensive damage was done to buildings, […]
Sometimes, just like a shooting star someone lights up our world and lives. They make us turn our face to the heavens and make us delight in all the good and beauty of this world. Just like the shooting star they are all too often gone before we really have time to fully comprehend just […]
In the cold predawn two hundred of us gathered at Balmoral Beach in Mosman, Sydney to welcome Grandfather Sun and acknowledge the Whales. Led by Yuin elder Uncle Max Dullamunmun Harrison and members of the Ngaran Ngaran dance group we learned about the significance of the whale to the indigenous peoples. To the indigenous peoples of Australia “The Dreaming” […]