Swazi Stories
Hunting For Hog Deer on Snake Island
Swazi Ambassador, Mel, gets a shot at hunting the elusive Hog Deer that inhabit Snake Island and jumps at the opportunity! Snake Island is not a very inviting place name, but apparently the great hunting makes up for that... Nonetheless, Mel cracks on and does what she does best: harvesting deer with the help of her four-legged friend. Read on!
Walking With Wings - A 15,000 km solo trek around New Zealand
Swazi is thrilled to be supporting Shane Kidby, a 48 year old New Plymouth resident who's attempting to walk Aotearoa’s entire coastline to raise funds and awareness for cystic fibrosis and mental health in honour of his late...
Godzone - Team Swazi Race Report
Wow aren’t we lucky to live in NZ and to be able to carry on with life almost as normal given the wider world we live in. Godzone Chapter 9 for the first time was set to come to the...
Time to put up your Christmas Tree? If you're in South Canterbury why not grab one of the Wilding Pines being cut down by the team at High Country Contracting. These trees are from the shores of Lake Pukaki...
The Most Important Cog In The Wheel
Kane Brisco’s into his seventh year 50/50 sharemilking at Ohangai near Hawera, in South Taranaki. He’s one of a growing number of farmers getting behind Farmstrong, a nationwide rural wellbeing initiative designed to help farmers cope with the ups and...
Above Claire and Kevin Power walking the Te Araroa Trail How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time The beginning of the end In 2017 we travelled to Cambodia; I was 51 and Kev was 52. At...
Horri's adventure from "Way Back
So we get this message from Horri Friday "Hullo. Way back, Davie sorted me out with a Tahr Anarok for a trip to the snow with two absolute bloody maniacs, hahaha! On the way down they were telling me...
10 year old Grayson Ferguson from Palmerston North Normal School recently emailed Davey explaining about a school project he was doing on exploring. Grayson, like all good 10 years had been doing some of his own exploring recently on a...
So how good really is the Swazi fleece FREE repair warranty? Leesa Todd was about to find out... she sent in her 23 year old Chamois Jacket that dog Tess had well and truly munted. Here then, in Leesa's own words is...