These little guys are crazy.

‘We’ll pitch our tent/on Kāpiti Rock,’ sang one of this country’s finest singing sons, mariner and musician Andrew Fagan.

This is becoming a hugely popular walkway, so you’ll need to watch for and be nice to the other folk.

Charming: an overused word, perhaps, but the best possible description of the tiny township of Akaroa.

This, the last remaining coal-fired steamship in the southern hemisphere, was launched the same year as the Titanic.

It’s all about the shelving. Not that buckled bench in the caravan, but the Hikurangi Trench.