The Lost Ecosystem of the Leith Swamp Forest, Dunedin

A portion of 'Kettle's 1847 map, 'Otago Land District SO 6’, showing the 'Leith Delta'. The green shading is interpreted as mostly 'bush/forest'.

One part of Dunedin is different from the rest…. The Dunedin area is an old volcano. It’s formed mostly from the molten, or semi-molten material that forced its way up from below, or some of the older marine strata that this material pushed its way through. In the few million years since the Dunedin volcano… Continue reading The Lost Ecosystem of the Leith Swamp Forest, Dunedin

A Chilling Thought about Travel – is it mostly Hoarding?

Seven months of travelling nearly done, and I’m siting in a plane, about to watch a documentary on Martin Phillipps of ‘The Chills’. My trip started in Ukraine/Belarus. Then I moved south to Turkey – more precisely the Kurdish far south-east. An underlying theme was to see how many ‘Mediterranean islands I could bounce around.… Continue reading A Chilling Thought about Travel – is it mostly Hoarding?