We Still Live In Interesting Times
We Still Live in Interesting Times It seems even the weather gods are getting with the program and enforcing social isolation. We woke this morning to a world restricted to our boundary fence Sails Ashore Web Cam But like many I guess we are powering through the...
We Live in Interesting Times
We Live In Interesting Times Today dawns nice and sunny with about enough breeze to lay the moored boats to the west. And otherwise the village and the bay is completely deserted. No parked or moving vehicles visible, , and not a soul to be seen. And it’s...
A Day at Port Adventure
A Day at Port AdventureA few days ago returning Guests decided to have a day at Port Adventure, and invited me to go along with them. And I’m always happy to enjoy a “Busman’s Holiday, and especially so as it was a Cruise Ship day, and thats a good...
Australian Bushfires 36 times larger than Stewart Island
Australian Bushfires 36 times larger than Stewart Island My last two trips to Ulva Island I’ve been a bit puzzled by the water in the cottage tanks… It’s tasted a bit smokey. I must be a bit slow, as it’s quite likely its from the Australian...
Ferns and Snails
One of the more attractive ferns … or in my opinion anyway …. is our Hen & Chicken Fern. Asplenium bulbiferum .It’s found most often in damp well shaded forest understory and is much loved by Whitetailed deer
About Me
I arrived on Stewart Island in 1969 as Forest Ranger. Since then I've fished commercially both in Fiordland and around Stewart Island then skippered our charter yacht in the same waters, and also down into the Southern Ocean. More recently we now have "Sails Ashore" B&B, and I also guide our guests and others on Ulva Island, introducing them to the natural world of Stewart island