Peter Salter living life on his own terms for over three decades.

BushLife Blog

  • Lieutenant Colonel “Tom” Barnes, SOE Sapper.

    by Kelvin bushlifenz@gmail.com
    Lieutenant Colonel C. E. “Tom” Barnes on right.  Tom led one of the demolition teams on Op Harling in Greece, he was one of two Kiwis seconded to...

  • NZ's Hut Network.

    by Kelvin bushlifenz@gmail.com
    Dundas Hut in the Tararua Ranges, built 1961. If you've ever spent time in NZs national parks chances are you have stayed in a hut originally buil...

  • Fathers Day Photo Competition.

    by Kelvin Dixon
    For Fathers Day this year we ran a photo competition. The quality of the entries was very high and it was tough to pick a winner. Congratulations t...

  • Kiwi Hunting Legend Percy Lyes

    by Kelvin Dixon
    New Zealand hunting legend Percy Lyes starting learning bushcraft in the forests near Hokitika during the depression. He started trapping rabbits a...

  • PracMed NZ "Stop the Bleed" workshop, review.

    by Kelvin Dixon
    My wife and I recently completed the PracMed NZ Stop the Bleed workshop in Palmerston North. As someone whos done a bunch of different medical cour...

  • Bread Making the NZFS Way.

    by Kelvin Dixon
    Bread Making the NZFS Way. Camp-oven bread is often spoiled through poor preparation, and the following tips will assist in making a good loaf: • ...

  • Major Wallingford "The human machine gun."

    by Kelvin Dixon
    "I am sure that the enemy thought that they had a picked body of marksmen in front of them – well so they had … twenty five New Zealand boys who ...

  • Private John "Barney" Hines, the souvenir king.

    by Kelvin Dixon
    Private John "Barney" Hines surrounded by German equipment he had looted during the Battle of Polygon Wood in September 1917. Also known as "Wild ...

  • Skipper Yerex ran his deer destruction operations like a military campaign.

    by Kelvin Dixon
    George Franklyn "Skipper" Yerex was a key figure during the "Deer Wars" he was born in Wellington in 1893. George enlisted in the Territorial Fo...

  • Ross Webber.

    by Kelvin Dixon
    Ross Webber spent 46 years living the BushLife alone on remote Puangiangi Island in the Marlborough Sounds. In 1957 the then 27-year-old bought th...

  • The King of No Man's Land

    by Kelvin Dixon
    Sgt Richard Travis VC, the King of No Man's Land. Less than a month after the outbreak of the First World War, Richard Travis joined the 7th (Sou...

  • A Pākehā goes AWOL to join the Māori Battalion.

    by Kelvin Dixon
    A Pākehā goes AWOL to join the Māori Battalion.  “I don't know how many people know that we had a full Pakeha fighting with us in Italy. He was La...