West Coast

The Blackball Bathhouse

March 30, 2021 Leave a Comment

This video started with an early morning wander around Blackball while there on holiday in December 2020. The project turned into something of a collaboration when I made contact with […]

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Coffee Roasting in Blackball – West Coast, New Zealand

February 23, 2021 Leave a Comment

Here’s a short video I made about a roastery in Blackball featuring master roaster Will Cleaver.

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Kiwikiwi – Creek Fern – Blechnum Fluviatile

December 27, 2020 Leave a Comment

The Creek fern is native to New Zealand (where it’s also known by an alternative Maori name Kiwakiwa) and southeast Australia where it is known as the Ray water-fern – […]

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Raurenga – Kidney Fern – Hymenophyllum Nephrophyllum

March 4, 2020

The Kidney Fern: World Famous in New Zealand.

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Big Rimu Tree Walk – Karamea, West Coast, New Zealand [Video]

January 10, 2020

Karamea has to one of NZ’s hippest small towns. It’s definitely got it’s own thing going on up there in the northern West Coast. Close to the Heaphy track, the […]

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Wheki-Ponga Tree Fern – Koru

December 15, 2019

Unfurling Wheki-Ponga frond – Koru. Snapped on a trip to Karamea.

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Kereru Encounter – West Coast Wilderness Trail

March 15, 2019

Here’s a video of two courting Kereru we passed on the West Coast Wilderness Trail.

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