Basil team members Sarah and Tim celebrated their 33rd wedding anniversary today. The other team members were baffled. Mabel and Melek have never been married, although Melek had fathered two litters of puppies before he joined team Basil, who quickly…

Team Basil is proud to announce that today it completed a walk without getting lost! This morning we awoke to find that we had managed to sleep right through the summer and had woken up sometime in late autumn. We…

Our wildcamping spot on the car park for the Hepokongas waterfall should have turned out to be perfect. It was peaceful, we were on our own and there was even somewhere to empty the cassette. It was not to be.…

After dinner yesterday, the few fishermen who had been present at our campsite had disappeared and we had the whole place to ourselves. We brewed a cup of tea and took it down to the lake’s edge and sat and…