CAMPING THE KIWI WAY

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A weekend exploring the Waihopai Reserve in Marlborough.

Smaller rural communities should be welcoming these thousands of travellers with open arms.

By the sea, only twenty minutes from Blenheim, Rarangi is an easy flat drive.

It was a great two weeks at Waihora Domain in Motukarara. Linda Butler.

We love our little caravan not just for holidays but for other emergency get-a-ways, should the situation call for it.

I love the freedom that carrying an ultralight tent provides, it empowers you to camp wherever your legs can take you.

Recipes for Rocks and Gravel, Paneer and Vege Curry and Tuna Pasta. Camp cooking when the fresh food is running out.

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Marty toasting marshmallows in the rain.

Their title: “Freedom campers pinged”. A prime example of poor and emotive reporting.

Hold on a minute, we are campers and have most of the items required to survive the first few days of an emergency without outside assistance.

Fill in the blanks: South Island Lakes.

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A storm over the DOC Homestead campsite near St Bathans, Central Otago. ©2023 Tony Kissel

I found the APC decal and first thing I did was to place it on the back of my camper van. Another thing I can tick off.

Camping on a NI bike trip: the teardrop, tarp, comfy chairs, a table and a BBQ.

Tautuku Hut is a lesser-known DOC hut in the Catlins. It is short and sweet, making it a great first overnight tramp for families. Myself and another mama picked this as our first overnight tramp with our babies.

Here's Mavis hosting the family at Pahoia Beach Park. A must visit place for animal lovers. Bay of Plenty. Cheine Matheson

I rode on a trailer being towed along a long sandy beach. I squashed a few sandflies and went to bed blissfully happy each night.

NZ is a camping culture This makes us who we are, connects us to our environment like nothing else

On shanks’s pony, in kayaks, boats, bikes, cars, vans, caravans, pop tops, tear drops, motorhomes, we have spread out over the summer, loving our country.

We grab any chance to pack the Toyota Estima and the dog and just go.

My ride from Rangiora around the South Island had been interrupted near Hokitika, but I was determined to restart it.
I chose to do that at Sheffield and head west from there over Porters and Arthurs Pass.

Ten hours into a power cut with this cyclone .... THEN I remembered I've got full batteries in Mavis! Cheine Matheson

Who and how many are freedom camping?

I was invited to spend the New Year with friends at their crib at Papatowai.

Quinney’s Bush camp: ‘5th wheeler best in camp’.

The loveliest freedom camping spot before the Cook Strait ferries.

For me it's not the destination