Pedernales Falls and the Southern Jack-o-lantern
I hadn't been back to Texas in a few years. Having spent the time living in New Zealand, I was feeling a bit anxious...
Mushroom Hunting in the Abandoned Village of Kayaköy
Looking out the 'taksi' window on the way from Ölüdeniz beach to Kayaköy, I spot the eerily empty ghost town. Scattered stone and remnants...
Zombie-like Behaviour – Parasitized Insects, Cordyceps & Beauveria
Every foray offers up some oddity, some strange new species that I've never encountered before. When scanning the forest floor for mushrooms, the order...
Queenstown – A Springtime Foray
My legs fall in front of me and I catch my footing. What goes up, must come down. It's been nearly five hours and...
List of Bioluminescent Mushrooms in New Zealand
Witnessing the glow of mycelium and mushrooms has sparked a curiosity that has led me down an illuminating path of discovery. If fungi weren't already...
Fungi at the Orokonui Ecosanctuary
A protected cloud forest lies just 20 kilometers north of Dunedin. It is here that around 300 hectares of regenerating forest make up the...
Bioluminescence in the Bush – Glow in the Dark Mushrooms in New Zealand
Stewart Island or Rakiura in Maori means "glowing skies," but it's not the skies that interest me. My head is down, it's pitch black,...
The Fungi of Abel Tasman National Park
Expanding a hundred meters offshore the tide retreats exposing wavy ripples of soft sand. Cutting across the new desert at low tide, thousands of...
Peel Forest Fungi
Forty-five minutes north of Timaru on the east coast of the South Island, past the quaint town of Geraldine, and a couple hours south...
