Foraging in the city for elderflower 🌳 Finally we have a summery day! Which is apparently ideal for harvesting elderflower - warm, dry...

The ‘Square of Moray Place’. Plans by Charles Kettle in the 1840s, as the first chief surveyor of Otago, included a large octagonal area...

A jog up to Swampy Summit in the mist this morning. We came across many of these prickly plants: Taramea (Aciphylla aurea) or Golden...

I have to add that the lupins along the Ahuriri River and through the Lindis are really pretty at the moment 🤗 #nature

The Lindis Pass - for our journey home south, we came via Central Otago over the Lindis. Otago surveyor John Turnbull Thomson traversed...

The Southern Discoveries suspension bridge. I made a dash for the Arrow River Bridges Ride trail yesterday between rain showers for some...

A pocket of lupins about to burst into colour just down from Ramshaw Lane in Arrowtown. Unfortunately these wild flowers are actually an...

Tracks amongst the thyme flowers in Bannockburn - it’s a beautiful time to be in Central Otago 💜 #nature

The remains of the Tobin’s cottage in Arrowtown. Thomas Tobin was an Irishman who came to New Zealand when gold was found in the Arrow...

Three stems of beautiful maroon lilies from Fallow & Fox in Mornington on Friday. Sometimes it’s nice to treat yourself to flowers ☺️!...