It's now just over a week since the wheels fell off. Well not really, we just couldn't power them up. Saturday night (23rd Feb) was spent in the NZMCA Park at Lumsden. Had a call from Gary to remind me that the Amateur Radio Jock White Field Days were on and to get my antennas … Continue reading A New Gearbox
Yes, we had our first cheese rolls of this trip. We are really in Southern Man Country now. Been off line at Taieri River Mouth the past few days but we left there this morning, climbing back over the hill to Waihola Lake, on to Milton and inland to Lawrence. But first a few photosi … Continue reading Cheese Rolls
A couple of nights at Oamaru, one at a camp site in Waikouaiti and today in rainy Dunedin. Our first day of sustained rain since we left home 7 weeks ago. We are staying at the NZMCA Park, a small sealed area with an optimisticly stated 40 van sites. I think 30 is more realistic. … Continue reading Explorers
The long way from Waimate to Oamaru is to follow the Waitaki River up to Kurow and back down to State Highway 1. And that is the way we went. I thought we would be in sight of the river most of the way but it wasn't until we crossed over at Kurow that we … Continue reading Long Way Round
Through Timaru and ever southwards, we stopped in Waimate for a couple of days. The picture above shows the town of Waimate. It was a grueling trek to the top of the mountain to get this shot, but we were lucky that there were no other cars coming the other way. There is a walking track … Continue reading Waimate
From Parnasus it was another small trip down south to Woodend where we stayed at the St Barnabus Church just north of Christchurch. This was a handy spot to visit relations of Judy's and catch up with their news, and to visit the nearby town of Rangiora where we were able to stock up on … Continue reading Christchurch
Well, only just over two weeks now before we depart on our big adventure to the South Island. Unfortunately we were unable to attend the latest caravan rally to Thames as we had a Radio Club Christmas breakup on the friday night and an extended family get together on the Sunday. However we travelled down … Continue reading Thames New Zealand
We leave on the 27th of December 2018 in our caravan, joining the South Auckland Caravan Club as they tour round the Wairarapa, leaving them on the 5th of January. We will then travel around the bottom of the North Island before crossing the Cook Strait on the 11th of January. Our time in the … Continue reading An Outline of planned trip
