Category Archives: West Coast

LivinginPeace Project: Working Towards Sustainability

(From Accommodation Industry News http://www.accomnews.co.nz) Karamea Farm Baches and Rongo Backpackers & Gallery enjoy what is probably one of the   most isolated and peaceful settings of any accommodation facilities in New Zealand, with the location underpinning the owners’ philosophy and … Continue reading

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Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo!

Reuters–New Zealand (Special Correspondent Sir Ian Robert Albert Richardhead) The Rongolian Star Media Liaison Officer Tamarillo Feijoa has just released non-classified sections of Yumpy’s last journal entries on her ill-fated solo traverse of the Heaphy Track. Yumpy, a Kumara bred … Continue reading

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Off the Top of my Head: Musings on Morality

By Paul Murray New Zealand today is a rather pious place, but it was more so in the recent past. Apparently, up to around 1950 it was illegal for farmers to permit their animals to copulate in the public, so … Continue reading

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