The Maritime Explorer

This website offers access to a variety of articles from numerous magazines and newspapers, along with extensive photo galleries featuring additional images beyond those included in the original articles. But there's more to this site than just published pieces. The Destinations & Explorations section showcases accounts of journeys I've never aimed to publish, yet these are the ones I cherish the most. They focus on exploration rather than mere travel and capture my personal adventures in different parts of the world. This content is regularly refreshed to reflect my ongoing experiences.

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Mount Cook Flyover - Best Ending Ever

1 week ago | themaritimeexplorer.ca | Dale Dunlop

Home › Destinations › Mount Cook Flyover – Best Ending Ever T.S.Eliot famously wrote that the world would end not with a bang, but with a whimper. Obviously he had never been on an Adventures Abroad tour which always aspires to end with a bang and this New Zealand tour is no exception.
Otago Peninsula - One of New Zealand's Finest Day Trips

2 weeks ago | themaritimeexplorer.ca | Dale Dunlop

Home › Destinations › Otago Peninsula – One of New Zealand’s Finest Day Trips In the last post on this Adventures Abroad tour of New Zealand we landed in the southern city of Dunedin which is the gateway to one of New Zealand’s must visit places, the Otago Peninsula. In this post we’ll spend the day exploring Otago starting with a visit to New Zealand’s only castle and following it up with a visit to Taiaroa Head which we’ll explore by land and sea.
Dunedin And Nugget Point

4 weeks ago | themaritimeexplorer.ca | Dale Dunlop

Home › Destinations › Dunedin And Nugget Point We’ve spent the last few days on this Adventures Abroad tour of New Zealand in southwest corner of South Island which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to four national parks. In the last post we visited Doubtful Sound, one of the most remote and beautiful places on Earth.
Doubtful Sound and Queenstown

1 month ago | themaritimeexplorer.ca | Dale Dunlop

Home › Destinations › Doubtful Sound and Queenstown This is my fourth post from New Zealand’s South Island as part of the Adventures Abroad tour of this amazing country. In the first two we visited the Marlborough wine country, took a train ride through the Southern Alps, glimpsed Franz Josef glacier and took a jet boat up the Haast River before arriving in Queenstown for a day on our own. On that free day Alison and I chose to play golf at the Millbrook Resort in nearby Arrowtown.
Millbrook Coronet Course Hole by Hole

1 month ago | themaritimeexplorer.ca | Dale Dunlop

Home › Destinations › Millbrook Coronet Course Hole by Hole Alison and I have a free day in Queenstown in the middle of the Adventures Abroad tour of New Zealand and have opted to play golf at the Millbrook Resort in nearby Arrowtown. This is a five star resort on 650 acres of prime real estate at the foot of the Remarkables Mountain Range. It has two 18 hole courses, Remarkables and Coronet, the latter of which we will play today.
Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand

1 month ago | themaritimeexplorer.ca | Dale Dunlop

Home › Destinations › Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand are the Maori and English names for one of the largest and most spectacular UNESCO World Heritage Sites on the planet (for brevity’s sake I’ll just refer to it as Te Wahipounamu hereafter).
South Island New Zealand with Adventures Abroad

1 month ago | themaritimeexplorer.ca | Dale Dunlop

Home › Destinations › South Island New Zealand with Adventures Abroad This is the first of a number of posts from New Zealand’s South Island which Alison and I visited on a March 2025 Adventures Abroad tour led by the one and only Chris Tripodi. In the last post I described the highlights of two visits to the capital city of Wellington. In this post I’m going to feature quite a number of very different experiences on the first two days of our time in South Island.
Lake Taupo and Other North Island Wonders

1 month ago | themaritimeexplorer.ca | Dale Dunlop

Home › Destinations › Lake Taupo and Other North Island Wonders This is the third full day of the March 2025 Adventures Abroad New Zealand tour and if it’s anything as action packed as yesterday’s Maori themed events, it will be something to remember. We will be travelling from Rotorua through the most volcanic area of the country on a portion of the Thermal Explorer Highway to arrive in the nation’s capital Wellington.
Cape Reinga and Waipuoa Forest

2 months ago | themaritimeexplorer.ca | Dale Dunlop

Home › Destinations › Cape Reinga and Waipuoa Forest This is my fourth and final post from New Zealand’s amazing Northland Peninsula, an area usually overlooked by international tourists, to their detriment as I explained in this post from the Bay of Islands. For Canadians and Nova Scotians in particular, the town of Waipu, founded by Scots from New Scotland, should be a must visit destination.
Bay of Islands - Exploring New Zealand's Northland

2 months ago | themaritimeexplorer.ca | Dale Dunlop

Home › Destinations › Bay of Islands – Exploring New Zealand’s Northland In this post Alison and I are going to explore a small part of the very northern tip of the North Island of New Zealand, an area called, not surprisingly, just Northland. I have already put up two posts from Northland, one on the Nova Scotian founded settlement of Waipu and another on the Top 100 golf course Kauri Cliffs.