Author Archives: EarthgirlNZ
Listening To Wild Kiwis at Karori Sanctuary Trust in Wellington
Karori Sanctuary Trust is where kiwis breed nowadays in peace, just a few minutes away from downtown Wellington, capital city of New Zealand. One would not expect to find our national bird in this valley so close to the hustle and bustle of a big city, but the kiwis now have their own protected slice … Continue reading
Swimming With The Dolphins in Bay of Islands, Northland
Last summer we went out on a dolphin expedition at the famous Bay of Islands up in Northland, New Zealand. We woke up early morning and climb onto the boat taking out at the sea while the sun started to climb out of the clouds behind our back. There was a little bit of wind … Continue reading
Jumpin Off The Taheke Falls, Northland, New Zealand
As promised here is a little something that I will share from a Day in the Life of me way back when…. now these posts aren’t gonna be in any particular order, they are pretty random regarding time frames hahaha
Ok… Jumping of the falls! Yep i was wanna those crazy kids who just wanted to give it a go!! The waterfalls in question are the legendary Taheke Falls in Northland where I grew up… there was a small one that we used to jump off because when you hit the water the bubbles used to pick you up and pop you out the other side easy as… and those ones had this natural slide down the side of a rock where the baby eels used to swim up.. had to make sure didn’t get under the shorts hahaha! Sun bathing with ya mates on the hot flat rocks listening to the thunder of water meeting air meeting water….. Continue reading
Lethal Mongrels On The Run In Otakiri, Bay of Plenty
Now my mate lived not too far away, a couple of paddocks away to be precise. We hung out quite a bit as teenagers (we would have sneaky smokes, listen to The Doors and have a bloody good laugh really). Now one particular night I hooned over to her place with my torch and oversized gumboots, carefully navigating my way as there was this huge ass mother of a drain smack-bang in the middle of it! SLOP SLOP….pulling the ‘Gummies’ out if they happened to get suctioned in by the mud.
It was the usual sort of a night for us…music, laughter, smoking, dancing like rock queens. We’d wish that Jim Morrison was still alive so we could drool more! Bloody Nora! Anyway, no-one else was at her place at the time, so the house was ours for a few hours so we could live it up! Just had to make sure I didn’t go green again… like I did this one night…puking outside by the trampoline wishing I was never introduced to Black Russian! Continue reading
A Bad Girl On A motorbike From Tikitiki, Gisborne
When you grow up on a farm there’s bound to be some shit happening or some kind of catastrophe.
We had this awesome as motorbike that we would pretend we were stunt riders and always trying to better the other jumping bigger jumps, skidding the ass end of it out trying to do 360 degree turns. We were stunt stars… at least at home.
On one particular day I ‘stole’ it and put on my best gears (stonewash jeans, gumboots, black jacket, huge ass helmet and super goggles)…. classy bitch I tell ya! I started off doing small jumps…I needed heaps of practice if I was going to be better than my bro… by the way it was his bike, not OUR bike haha. Hooning off like the clappers, jumping what felt like 100 feet but probably only one foot.
Ended up with my bro coming out yelling “Get off my bloody bike you bitch!”, “You didn’t ask! Get off!”, fair enough haha. Just made me want to push the bike harder and faster! Ended up skidding out this way and that and watching my brother run at me then disappear as I boosted beyond. Took great pleasure in watching him angry and not being able to get near me… knowing full well that when I got off I just had to bloody bolt and get the hell out of there as we probably would have got into fisty cuffs haha (don’t get me wrong but we were close as, but annoyed the hell out of each other and ended up in a big scene afterwards). Continue reading