A yacht with red sail out in the bay yesterday. #photography #aotearoa #doubtlessbay #yacht
Another beautiful start to the day in #doubtlessbay today. #photography #aotearoa #view
New Zealanders in a nutshell:
#Aotearoa #NewZealand

We made it past 10 signatures! Let’s try to get to 100 as soon as possible. Who do you know that wants to keep living on this planet? Share this with them. Share it on your other social media. Send it to everyone in your contacts list and say ‘because this is important to me’, then see if you re-start conversations with people you care about but haven’t spoken to in ages. That sort of thing.

Change.org/ToitūPārihi

The Paris agreement is our multinational agreement and plan to keep earth liveable by limiting climate change to between 1.5-2 degrees celsius. The biggest threats to this human politics, human greed, and assuming that somebody else will fix it. As a citizen of #Aotearoa #NewZealand I feel responsible to hold my government to account to hold up our end of the bargain. #ToitūPārihi

Kilkenny lookout, overlooking a riverbend on the Buller River inland from Westport, Te Waipounamu, Aotearoa/New Zealand

#Photography #Darktable #Aotearoa #TeWaipounamu #Canterbury #ConwayRiver #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #River #Waterway #OMSystem #Olympus #MZuiko
Another picture from the #MilfordTrack, this one from the second day of the trek. This was by far my favorite overall day of the hike.

#NewZealand #Aotearoa #Hiking #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Mountain #MountainPhotography

PSA for those in Aotearoa New Zealand:

Nationwide Emergency Alert Test
on 14 June 2026
between 6-7pm

https://getready.govt.nz/prepared/ema/nationwide-test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_OFM9FEXy8

Explainer: How emergency alerts work and why you'll get one on Sunday
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/emergency/597997/explainer-how-emergency-alerts-work-and-why-you-ll-get-one-on-sunday

#Aotearoa #NewZealand #NZ #NZL

Nationwide test of the Emergency Mobile Alert system

The nationwide test of the Emergency Mobile Alert system is a necessary part of making sure the system works well. Find results and information about nationwide tests.

Get Ready — Emergency preparedness in New Zealand

Submissions to oppose the sale of #Aotearoa NZ conservation land by the #NZPol coalition of corruption close on 2 July 2026.

https://youtube.com/shorts/XxTGMF8-fp4

The NZ Government is planning a ram raid on public conservation land

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Winter sun in the Wairarapa #Aotearoa

Monday 22 June is National Flash Fiction Day, and in the leadup to it, this weekend is the Festival of Flash! Check out the Flash Frontier YouTube channel for all the events: https://www.youtube.com/@flashfrontier3044

I'm reading my shortlisted flash fiction in tomorrow's noon-1pm session, and you can read my longlisted micro fiction together with the other longlisted stories (under 100 words) here - my story is Napoleon on a corporate repeat: https://nationalflash.org/2026-micro-madness/

@bookstodon #nzbooks #nzlit #Aotearoa #NewZealand

Flash Frontier

Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction.

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