At the end of September 2025, I left my Island home and flew to Bali in Indonesia, to join the Heritage Adventurer for two back-to-back voyages. For a month I’d be travelling through Indonesia, West Papua, Papua New Guinea, The Solomons and Vanuatu. The last time I was in Bali was way back in 1989 … the place was a lot busier and built up! The journey to Bali included an eight hour lay over in Sydney. So I drank a lot of coffee, did some work on the laptop, ate a nice panini

After returning from Japan I had around at month at home on Stewart Island, with just a couple trips guiding on Ulva Island. This is...

In April I completed my fifteenth and final year of forest bird call counts here on Stewart Island for SIRCET. The weather was kind, so I...

Back in 2023 I got a phone call from my mate Sav who is co-owner of Wrybill Birding Tours wondering if I would be keen on guiding in...

In November 2023 I headed away to lead my first of this season’s 21-day birding tour of NZ for Wrybill birding tours. On the journey to...

New Zealand tours, twitching, Subantarctic Islands, Antarctica, Auckland to Yokohama and birding in Japan! Latest news … well most of...