What s your favourite place for a pie/coffee? I make a pretty good pie and coffee myself, but when I can’t be bothered, or if I m out and about, I love the vibe and the welcome everyone gets at Riverstone Kitchen, just outside of Oamaru. I’ve never been disappointed by their food. What s one NZ spot on the top of your bucket list? Since our planned overseas trip has had to be cancelled, we have decided to use the time we would have spent in Tahiti in the closest thing New Zealand has to a French tropical island - Stewart Island! We ve wanted to go ever since we arrived in NZ from the US 10 years ago, and we plan to spend five nights on the island, plus two nights in the Catlins.
The essential sunset photography guide
For some photographers, a mere fifteen minutes of sunset is worth a lifetime of traveling. Take, for example, Paul Reiffer, a UK-based photographer who spent years journeying across the globe to capture sunsets over Bonsai Rock, the Empire State Building, the Moeraki Boulders, Pulpit Rock, the Tokyo Tower, and beyond.
In Torres del Paine, Patagonia, he sat for hours on a tiny lakefront outcrop, as the winds blew and the colors shifted before his eyes. On another occasion, he visited a pristine Yosemite on the off-season, watching the sky illuminate overhead. He’s hiked in the mountains of Iceland beneath the midnight sun and caught a reverse sunset at Lake Tahoe’s Emerald Bay.
Instagram has changed the way people travel.
Rebecca Ryan finds out how Tourism Waitaki is using social media to its advantage and what the most “Instagrammable” spots in the district are.
Have you ever seen someone’s travel photo on Instagram and been inspired to go there?
Posts about travel on social media are dramatically affecting people’s decision-making about the experiences they choose to have – and a destination’s “Instagrammability” is now a major driver of its attractiveness.
Due to international travel restrictions, there has been a much bigger focus on New Zealanders exploring their own backyard and heading off the beaten track this summer, which has also resulted in a shift in the popular destinations for Instagrammers.
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A Moeraki Boulder is removed from Koekohe Beach. One of the largest was taken from its coastal home of several million years and placed outside Otago Museum in Dunedin. “One of the finest of the famous ‘Moeraki boulders’ was removed from its resting place and brought to town to be placed in the grounds of the museum, where it will no doubt attract considerable attention, and will certainly form one of the most interesting of the many valuable historic exhibits at that institution,” an
Evening Star article from May 5, 1938, said. Motorists heading north on Dunedin s one-way system can still get a fleeting glimpse of the boulder, which weighs about seven tonnes.