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Autumn 2025

ISSUE 11

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Issue 11, Autumn 2025

Cover image: Camp ovens ©2025 Graham Leslie

ISSUE 11

Table of contents

Here and there last summer

The Pigroot SH85

Adventure in Te Aroha

Op shop finds

Camping at CampFest

Camping at the museum

Sailing through the Waiheke Channel

Wairere falls

Choosing your next camping vehicle is not always easy

GAME: DOC campsites 5: Upper South Island

A shady spot to park

First time on the ferry

Canterbury, Waihora

Fitting Auto levellers

Far from flat

Camping at the Mohaka River Farm

A good day’s camping starts with a thermette

Before you light a fire

Fireplace at Mangaweka

Re-building my Toyota van part 2

Made it to Campfest

Freedom camping: need to know, 2025

Self-containment warrant cards: Which ones are good for what?

But I am not freedom camping…

Getting your camping vehicle certified

The ‘caravan train’ at Kekerungu.

Whisky Gully

The red lights?

Back on the boat (our caravan that floats)

St Kilda, Dunedin

A camp oven is much more than just a pot

Recipes for camping

Lake Kaniere 1959

NIWA autumn forecast

On the first day it rained and blew

Late Summer journey: Southland & West Coast

Stop and Stay, Central North Island

Nugget Point lighthouse

Interesting and tempting to purchase!

Luxury camping

Hobby: Fishing and Diving

Fishing as the sun goes down

The cracks kept coming

Woke to fog

A night at Ferry Reserve

Bedtime Bubbles

Waiohine Gorge

DOC update

Loading a caravan safely

Campfest

Late summer fishing

20-odd years

Tuppence, Pirongia

We came early

New Year at Waihora Domain

Cafe 77, Manawaru

Rosie and Brian’s

Havelock Mussel Festival

Editorial: and so we go on

Come camping

All Points Camping

Councils & Government

Freedom camping: need to know, 2025

Self-containment warrant cards: Which ones are good for what?

But I am not freedom camping…

Editorial: and so we go on

Self-containment & Freedom Camping

Adventure in Te Aroha

Wairere falls

A shady spot to park

Far from flat

Freedom camping: need to know, 2025

But I am not freedom camping…

Whisky Gully

St Kilda, Dunedin

On the first day it rained and blew

Fishing as the sun goes down

A night at Ferry Reserve

Editorial: and so we go on

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