Monday the 17th June we left our comfortable home sit in Richmond and travelled up to St Arnaud in the Nelson Lakes District where we set up camp in the DOC Park and went on a sight seeing tour of the area. St Arnaud is on the shores of Lake Rotoiti so we travelled up … Continue reading Travelling and a Nasty Mosquito Bite
In a week we have covered a lot of ground and frankly it's daunting to try and cram it into a short post so I'll put it into two. Cell phone and internet connection has been patchy. Our last day in Ross and we were determined to walk the tailrace track in spite of the … Continue reading Ross to Greymouth Part 1
Last Friday we left our homesit at Geraldine and headed off towards the West Coast. First stop was at the A & P Showgrounds at Oamaru where we parked up for the night. In the morning we decided to head to Ranfurly where we stayed two nights at the NZMCA Park. While here we went … Continue reading And the Rain Came Thundering Down
The trip from the Tasman River Delta at the top end of Lake Pukaki to Tekapo was very windy but without incident. We remembered our last trip here and that it was also very windy, however the NZMCA Park is sheltered with many pine trees growing in and around. We spent a bit of time … Continue reading Not Friday
Thursday we left the caravan at the campsite and headed off to Lake Hawea for a look. The lake was dammed up back in the 50s raising the lake level by up to 18 metres. The level is controlled over eight metres with the outflow joining the outflow from Lake Wanaka for power generation at … Continue reading Wings
It's been a lazy week moving through the wonderful scenery of Otago. Steep mountains covered in low brown tussock and grasses. We left Glenorchy at the north end of Lake Wakatipu and travelled down to Queenstown where we filled up with diesel and emptied our black and grey water tanks in a busy petrol station. … Continue reading Central Otago
