Jack Machiela and Noldor Blog

While guiding a LOTR tour, we watched this pod of around 10 Orcas (aka Killer Whales) make their way out of the Wellington Harbour, through Scorchi...

We were sitting in Oriental Bay (Wellington New Zealand) this afternoon, enjoying a bit of lunch and a coffee, and two lazy stingrays swam right pa...

Aiko and I went to Queenstown midway through November 2010, partly to celebrate Aiko's birthday, partly mine still, but really just to have a nice ...

Aiko & I decided to visit Darwin in June, 2011. Aiko has been there before and wanted to show me some of its highlights - Kakadu National Park, Kat...

The Australian travel show "Getaway" did a segment on Wellington Rover Tours. The guide that day was Nathan Clear, and among the tourists is my lov...

Today I was guiding a group of LOTR tourists at Kaitoke Regional Park, which was used in the Lord Of The Rings movie as Rivendell.

Currently aroun...

The boat "The Venture" which was used in the Peter Jackson movie King Kong is being stripped for eventual scuttling off the Wellington coastline. I...

The boat "The Venture" which was used in the Peter Jackson movie King Kong is being stripped for eventual scuttling off the Wellington coastline. I...