I’m Denise Irvine and welcome to my site.
I’ve enjoyed adventures throughout New Zealand for over thirty years – I’d love to share them with you, and hope you’ll experience them for yourself.
Our beautiful scenery offers so many opportunities for exploring. Hiking, biking, black and white water rafting, golf carts along old railway lines and beautiful beaches for lazing or body surfing. The list is endless!
One of the nicest things about these adventures is that you meet many like minded people – you enjoy the adventures with them and although may never see them again, they remain a special memory.
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Do enjoy New Zealand and make every minute count.
Meandering in Marakopa
A non work day in the middle of the week. Amazing!! Having had a wonderful exploratory holiday so far to a variety of beautiful parts of the North Island, over the summer (2025) this day needed to continue that pattern. After a lot of research, where the criteria was not too far for a day…
A trip on the Driving Creek Railway – Coromandel
During our holiday to Coromandel (Dec 2024) we took time to ride the Driving Creek railway, an iconic railway built by Barry Brickhill starting in 1975. Brickhill developed the railway to transport the special clay needed for his pottery. The train was 250 meters in length. It climbs 120 meters over a 3 kilometers…
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Bubbling mud pools, silica terraces and geysers
Another of our roadies during our 2024/2025 holiday was a day trip to Orakei Korako. A geothermal park abut 30minutes north of Taupo. This venue was officially opened as a tourist resort in 1937 and spans the Waikato river. Consisting of beautifully constructed café/shop and toilets on one side of the river and the tourist…
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Hiking is my Happy Place
My heart is pounding. My legs are burning. My back is tired from the weight of my pack but the beauty that surrounds me, the bird calls which are now becoming more frequent again and the feeling of exhilaration as my body responds to the demands asked of it – this is what keeps me…
Hiking in the Mt Aspiring region
12- 16th Jan 2024 Five hours wait in the Wellington airport The start of my hiking trip saw me spending 5 hours in Wellington airport, waiting for my connecting flight to Dunedin!! Not at all exciting, when all I wanted to do was pull my boots on, but bought a good book,” Not Alone” by…