Places to go, Rivers to Fish

Last week son Jack and I went on a road trip up to Hervey Bay, to check out some of our Education Geographics client schools north of Brisbane. With school holidays on, it was mainly a matter of getting the latest look and feel of schools and their accessibility from a roadside view; to help […]

By Steven Cooke | Last September, Michelle and I walked the Three Capes Track carrying everything ourselves. No pack transfers, no shortcuts. Just weight on our backs and some of the most raw, spectacular scenery Tasmania has to offer. The track is beautifully built, but the packs change the deal. Every climb is earned. Every […]

Spatsizi is a hidden gem in Canada’s British Columbia, with the best food, fish, and people you could ask for. Our trip consisted of my family: James, my older brother; Juliana, my younger sister; Jeanine, my mum; John, my dad; and me. The whole time we were there, the guides and staff treated us like […]

More picture postcard waters from the Taupo region today.

Jeanine and new friend, from today. A good day for us all.

You couldn’t get a nicer picture on a chocolate box, folks. Here’s the adjoining villa at Tongariro Lodge this morning as we were starting to gear up for the day’s fishing. The mighty Tongariro River is about 20 metres away. Fly fishing awaits, for the first time here in 4 years, thanks to Covid lockdowns.

I can tell New Zealand Customs that, in all honesty, I definitely packed this bag myself. Not quite a triumph of three dimensional spatial optimisation.

After a week working on combined SQL and AI data and text modelling, I decided to go low tech for the kids’ packing list for our Kiwi trip.

The kids and I are getting our fair share of the pie before packing for our trip to NZ next week. Apparently, I’m fact finding, as well as fish finding, as my AFR editor is angling for a hook on a NZ election story. I’m in party mode already, as you can probably tell.