Watching our guests enjoying themselves creating on our Jewellery Workshops inspired us to go full time creating ourselves. We have been designing, hand making and selling scraptonium fashion and art at the local Russell Craft Market over last summer. We then looked into events over winter 2024 to attend that would expand our reach to [...]
We have been recently looking at ways to reduce our outgoings so we can stay in business and continue to provide experiences beyond the ordinary. We believe that the Bay of Islands is an ideal location for a quick getaway as well as for longer more in-depth exploration. We have sold both our Jeep Wranglers [...]
UPDATE 5th September 2021 On the 18th August the country moved to Level 4 to contain the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus. Northland, where we are based, moved down to Level 3 on the 3rd September and we will still be unable to operate until at least Level 2. We are still taking bookings [...]
One of the things we have discovered in setting up Rogue Pony Private Tours is there are a huge amount of online resources available. Knowing they exist is sometimes the first step in making your travel planning easier because Google is only as good as the search that you enter. You don't know what you [...]
What to do on a rainy day in the Bay of Islands has often been question heard around town. With the weather always changeable at any time of the year, boat cruises and fishing trips can get cancelled, cycling can be less than fun and there is a limit to how much relaxing in your [...]
On almost every one of our tours we get asked "Are we going to see a Kiwi bird today?" Being a nocturnal, endangered, flightless and timid bird actually seeing one in the wild is very difficult. Most New Zealanders have not seen one in the wild or even seen one in captivity. We have been [...]
Due to popular demand on the 30th January 2019 we have only one Jeep left for a 3-hour "Wrangler Run" tour. Starting at 10am you will experience NZ's native kauri trees, waterfalls, seaside and funky art towns, epic views, farmland, bush walks, history and all in your own private Jeep Wrangler with personal driver/guide. We have [...]
Bald Angels and their Christmas Present drive. When I was a little girl, I would sometimes wake up and discover a brand-new dress on the end of my bed. My beautiful mum was lovely and would make me dresses that were pretty, cute and made with love. It was special to wear a new dress [...]
Melbourne Cup is New Zealand’s Cup. (Referencing Peter Montgomery’s famous line – “The Americas Cup is New Zealand’s Cup!” at an Americas Cup sailing regatta) This race is “three-and-a-bit minutes of drama and intrigue” (google it) and for many kiwi’s it is the social event of the calendar year in the office, boardroom, workshop or [...]
