9 Spring 2024 9 Spring 2024 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption DOC campsites 3: Central NI, game Rhonda Marshall If you have been following our 2024 journey of New Zealand’s DOC campsites through the previous issues, you will notice something quite different with our DOC campsites this time. Firstly, the area of Mid-central North Island has such a vast number of campsites I have had to break it down into a subset of 25 sites for this issue. Secondly, many of these campsites are so remote you can only access them via boat, mountain bike or by foot. If you are the sort of campers who like to get away from everyone else, then these might be just the places you might consider visiting this summer. There are still 8 sites in this list that are accessible by camper/caravan so hopefully something to suit everyone. Enjoy! Instructions In the grid above, can you fill in 12 place names from this list of DOC sites? One site will run vertically as indicated by the shading and the others will fit horizontally across the grid. Camper/caravan: Kaimanawa Road Mangahuia Mangawhero Ohinepane Urchin Waikoko Whakahoro Whakapapa Foot or mountain bike: Bettjemann Hellawell’s Johnson’s Mangapurua Trig Mosley’s Foot only: Mangatepopo Oturere Waihonu boat only: John Coull Maharanui Mangapapa Mangapurua Mangawaiiti Ngaporo Ohauroa Poukaria Tieke Marae/Kainga View the solution Download as PDF 1.3mb Download as image 850kb Download the solution Up Up 9 Spring 2024 , p 32

10 summer 2024 10 summer 2024 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption No consistency. No fair control of freedom camping. Freedom camping news Bette Cosgrove Councils Many councils don’t have a bylaw, most can’t afford to enforce freedom camping laws or bylaws, and many can barely respond to complaints about freedom campers. Some have decided not to enforce the national law and have no local bylaw. Councils that DO have a bylaw are in the throes of revisiting them, as they must conform to the changed law by June next year! Whakamaru Queenstown, which had the strictest prohibitions on freedom campers in NZ and spent the most $$$ on enforcing them, now has no bylaw at all, since the High Court has declared their existing bylaw is invalid. Now they’ve got no income from fines and no more government funds to manage freedom camping, and a new bylaw to create, and might yet have to refund the fines imposed under their invalid bylaw. Ratepayers are pushing and scrambling to get councils to restrict freedom camping even more and there’s no more government / MBIE transition funding left to support local authorities to monitor their sites this summer. Vehicles Hire companies only have until Dec 7th to get the new green warrants for all their vehicles, an impossible task, given the slow and inadequate implementation of the new standards, and we are hearing their distress in the media as the deadline races towards them. The system set up by both the law and the Plumbers and Gas Fitters Board (PGDB) is not fit for the purpose of this transition period when so many vehicles require certification in a limited time. (Time will tell if it is fit for its ongoing purpose after the transition rush is over.) In the first 11 months only 6,000 green warrants have been issued overall (11/24), with so many commercial vehicles needing it and a conservative minimum of 75,000 vehicles (more likely 120,000) in NZ overall. The transition period, as people move from the old blue warrants to the new green warrants, is due to expire 6 June ’25. Minister Doocey has the power, and is considering a time extension for non-commercial camping vehicles. MBIE has consulted the public on whether or how much to extend the time (up to 2 years). (The law does not allow any time extension for hire companies.) NZMCA has over 120,000 members who get certification inspections for free. Those who wish to freedom camp (green warrant) need to pay only the government levy (there’s a different coloured warrant for those members who do not wish to freedom camp). Fixing toilets in campers Easy solutions and new affordable products are being invented in NZ to help campers permanently fix their toilets to their vehicles so they can pass the new laws and carry on camping. A vocal few, including some inspectors, are trashing some of these innovative ideas. Campers Domestic tourist freedom campers are getting angry.With 120,000 or more camping vehicles that is as many as 200,000 angry people. DOC and commercial campgrounds are nearly fully booked for the summer period in popular places, putting greater pressure on freedom camping sites. Freedom camping in Reefton, West Coast NZMCA has taken up leases on two public campgrounds in Northland. How (and whether) they manage these for the benefit of the camping public or just for the benefit of their members is a worry, particularly for those who do not camp in vehicles. NZMCA have an extensive portfolio of low-cost parks around the country for their members. Leasing exisiting parks is one way for them to extend into new areas, which becomes an issue if they disadvantage the non-member public campers, and non-vehicle campers. There are still a lot of upset regular freedom campers and permanent vehicle dwellers claiming homelessness in order to be exempt from the freedom camping law. No freedom camping laws or restrictions apply to the homeless who live in their vehicle. Overall No end to confusion and misinformation out there about what is lawful or required to be a freedom camper. No consistency. No fair control of freedom camping. It is going to be a crazy camping summer, I suspect. ◊ Reefton freedom camping, West Coast. ©2023 M Richardson Whakamaru, Waikato ©2023 Bette Cosgrove Up Up 10 summer 2024 , p 10

4 Winter 2023 4 Winter 2023 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption Winter at Nokomai Station Dallas Hibbs Winter at Nokomai Station on the way to Queenstown. ©2023 Dallas Hibbs Up Up 4 Winter 2023 , p 23

2 Summer 2022 2 Summer 2022 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption electrics_LFP_m.webp Lithium-ferro phosphate (LFP) batteries – a lithium battery rival Collyn Rivers The two battery types share some similarities but differ in high-energy-density, long life-cycles, and safety. The use of lithium-ferro phosphate (LFP) in batteries increases the choice of chemicals for battery production and reduces reliance on the more expensive, and difficult to produce, lithium hydroxide.Collyn Rivers. Read here: ckw.nz/lithium-rival Up Up 2 Summer 2022 , p 23

11 autumn 2025 11 autumn 2025 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption Loading Weight Distribution ©2025 Collyn Rivers a virtual recipe for jack-knifing Loading a caravan safely Collyn Rivers Knowing how to locate mass correctly along the length of a caravan is vital. That applies both to its design and the owner’s loading. This article shows the safe approach to loading a caravan — and why and how it matters doing so is vitally important. The caravan see-saw As with a see-saw, two children of the same weight sitting at equal distances from its pivot balance each other. Likewise an adult sitting nearer the middle on one side can balance the far lower mass of a child at the far end of the other side. A centre-axled caravan behaves like this too. Where you locate stuff along its length has the same effect: its distance from the axle/s increases its ‘effective weight’. The effect of locating a 20kg (44lb) item at various distances from the axle/s of a caravan. Locating a (say) 20kg (44lb) tool box directly over a caravan‘s axle will have no effect on that caravan pitching or swaying. But if that tool box is half-way toward the back of the caravan (and that caravan then pitches or sways) — because it is further away from the axle/s that 20kg (44lb) tool box exerts a force as if it weighed 40kg (88lb). If that tool box was on a 10kg (22lb) external rack at the rear of the caravan, it acts as if weighs around 80kg (175lb) and the rack itself an effective 40kg (88lb) [120kg at the rear]. Loading a caravan safely requires [paying attention to] the above. Each spare wheel carried on the rear of a caravan has the same effect. A tool box and rack thus acts as if it were four times heavier at the back of a 7 metre caravan than in the middle. It not only exerts additional force when the trailer pitches and yaws (sways): it induces that pitching and swaying. The effect is similar at the front. The down and side forces on the tow vehicle cause that vehicle to pitch — and yaw sideways. That side force literally steers the tow vehicle by distorting its rear tyres. Weight placement There is a common and very dangerous belief held by many caravan owners (and even a few caravan makers) that it is fine to have a heavy load at the rear as long as it is balanced by a similar load at the front. That is virtually a recipe for jack-knifing . The rig will seem ultra-stable much of the time, but if sway sets in at speed it may be impossible to stop it. The sway is likely to escalate and the rig to jack-knife. This is not an ‘opinion’. It is basic Newtonian physics. Loading a caravan safely — summary Never have heavy items, particularly tool boxes, spare wheels and full jerry-cans, at the very front or rear of a caravan. Always load the tow vehicle to its maximum legally permitted weight. Keep the caravan‘s loading as light as possible — and as close to the caravan‘s axle/s as possible. A caravan needs to be about 10% nose heavy, but do that by locating heavy stuff slightly ahead of the centre-line of the axle/s — not like a weight lifters barbell (that has all virtually all of the weight at the ends). This is why RV Book’s articles and publications so strongly condemn locating heavy spare wheels etc at the extreme rear of long caravans. Be aware that a few long and heavy caravans are being made with all water tanks ahead of the axle/s. With these the critical tow ball mass will vary (and potentially dangerous if water is drawn). They appear to rely on the tanks being full whilst towing. Some have since been recalled and modified. For a truly thorough, plain English explanation of all this (and how to assess the stability of your own caravan) see our book ‘Why Caravans Roll– and how to prevent it’. rvbooks.com.au/why-caravans-roll-over/ n Reproduced with permission. rvbooks.com.au/loading-a-caravan-safely Up Up 11 autumn 2025 , p 24

8 Winter 2024 8 Winter 2024 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption JUN Mid-winter at Victoria Tavern TBC Sat 22 June, Petone, Wellington
 ckw.nz/apc-fb-events JUN Mid Winter Rally, Rotorua. Fri 21–23 Jun, Rotorua, Bay of Plenty Lake, hot pool, bush walks, tennis courts, glow worms, kayaks, company and a pot luck. Power available. lakesranch.org.nz ckw.nz/lakes-ranch ckw.nz/lakes-ranch-rsvp JUN Wairarapa Winter Matariki Meet-up Thu 27–30 Jun, Featherston A Winter meet up: view Matariki rising in big sky country. Nearby, the Fire & Ice Winter Christmas Festival opens in Greytown. No power. Own toilet.
ckw.nz/matariki ckw.nz/matariki-rsvp JUL Feilding Mid Winter Dinner Sat, 6 July, Fielding Join the All Points team for a Mid Winter dinner at Murray’s Irish Bar Feilding.Overnight parking out back. APC members and guests only. RSVP essential
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 ckw.nz/fielding-midwint-rsvp JUL Canterbury Mid Winter Xmas Dinner Sat 27 Jul, Christchurch Join us for our Canterbury Mid Winter Xmas Dinner at Racecourse Hotel and Restaurant ckw.nz/cant-midwint
 ckw.nz/cant-midwint-rsvp JUL Ventia Car Rally camp Fri 26–28 July, Mamaranui, Northland Have a. Ringside seat as the rally passes by. Private land, limited space, booking essential: phone to book. Dogs on leads. See the cars meet the drivers on Friday night. ckw.nz/ventia ckw.nz/ventia-rsvp AUG Ocean Front — Canterbury Fri 23–25 Aug, Norh Canterbury Dolphins, whales, sea lions? Join us in this peaceful rural setting. Own toilet. Pets on leads. ckw.nz/conway ckw.nz/conway-rsvp SEP Exploring Clandeboye! Fri, 20–22 Sept, Temuka, South Canterbury Frenally, craft shop and Milford POP just out of Temuka. Explore on the way. Marshmallows plus fireplace! Craft class, devonshire tea and… ckw.nz/clandeboye
 ckw.nz/clandeboye-rsvp SEP Wairarapa Spring Camp Fri, 20–22 Sep, Carterton, Wairarapa All campers welcome including tents. Must book in advance with the camp: 
 cartertonholidaypark.co.nz. 
Family friendly. Dogs on leads. ckw.nz/carterton ckw.nz/carterton-rsvp OCT Music, Movies, Birdsong :Terako Downs Fri, 25–27 Oct, Canterbury-Hurunui Music, movies and birdsong at Terako Downs. Bring your instrument or use our guitar for a jam session. Wine tasting. Relax. All welcome including tents.
ckw.nz/terako ckw.nz/terako-rsvp OCT Spring camp at Foxton Beach Fri, 25 Oct – 28, Foxton Beach Labour Weekend at Foxton Beach School. Grassy space for tents and camping vehicles of all kinds. Access to the school hall with toilets and kitchen. On Sunday head along to the Foxton Spring Fling.
 ckw.nz/foxton ckw.nz/foxton-rsvp OCT Spring camp, Kai Iwi Spring camp, Kai Iwi Holiday Park TBC Oct, Northland check: ckw.nz/apc-events NOV Steampunk the Thames Steampunk the Thames camp TBC Fri 8–11 Nov, Thames, Hauraki check: ckw.nz/apc-events NOV Castle Claremont, Canterbury Castle Claremont Fri, 15–17 Nov, Canterbury How wonderful to stay at yet another amazing location! Tents welcome. Toilets available. Join us as we stroll through the woodlands. Enjoy the magical surroundings as you relax in the garden and enjoy the birds. ckw.nz/claremont
 ckw.nz/claremont-rsvp FEB '25 CampFest 2025 Fri 21–23 Feb 
Bulls Domain, Manawatu/Horowhenua Easter camp, Patea 2025 TBC Taranaki check: ckw.nz/apc-events come and join in Camping events Editor For the latest camps: allpointscampingnz.org/events ckw.nz/nzfunadventures-events Camps Mid-winter at Victoria Tavern TBC Sat 22 June, Petone, Wellington ckw.nz/apc-fb-events Mid Winter Rally, Rotorua Fri 21–23 Jun, Rotorua, Bay of Plenty Lake, hot pool, bush walks, tennis courts, glow worms, kayaks, company and a pot luck. Power available. lakesranch.org.nz ckw.nz/lakes-ranch | ckw.nz/lakes-ranch-rsvp Wairarapa Winter Matariki Meet-up Thu 27–30 Jun, Featherston A Winter meet up: view Matariki rising in big sky country. Nearby, the Fire & Ice Winter Christmas Festival opens in Greytown. No power. Own toilet. ckw.nz/matariki | ckw.nz/matariki-rsvp Feilding Mid Winter Dinner Sat, 6 July, Fielding Join the All Points team for a Mid Winter dinner at Murray’s Irish Bar Feilding.Overnight parking out back. APC members and guests only. RSVP essential. ckw.nz/fielding-midwint | ckw.nz/fielding-midwint-rsvp Canterbury Mid Winter Xmas Dinner Sat 27 Jul, Christchurch Join us for our Canterbury Mid Winter Xmas Dinner at Racecourse Hotel and Restaurant ckw.nz/cant-midwint | ckw.nz/cant-midwint-rsvp Ventia Car Rally camp Fri 26–28 July, Mamaranui, Northland Have a ringside seat as the rally passes by. It's on private land, limited space, booking essential: phone to book. Dogs on leads. See the cars and meet the drivers on Friday night. ckw.nz/ventia | ckw.nz/ventia-rsvp Ocean Front — Canterbury Fri 23–25 Aug, Norh Canterbury Dolphins, whales, sea lions? Join us in this peaceful rural setting. Own toilet. Pets on leads. ckw.nz/conway | ckw.nz/conway-rsvp Exploring Clandeboye! Fri, 20–22 Sept, Temuka, South Canterbury Frenally, craft shop and Milford POP just out of Temuka. Explore on the way. Marshmallows plus fireplace! Craft class, devonshire tea and… ckw.nz/clandeboye | ckw.nz/clandeboye-rsvp Wairarapa Spring Camp Fri, 20–22 Sep, Carterton, Wairarapa All campers welcome including tents. Must book in advance with the camp: cartertonholidaypark.co.nz . Family friendly. Dogs on leads. ckw.nz/carterton | ckw.nz/carterton-rsvp Music, Movies, Birdsong: Terako Downs Fri, 25–27 Oct, Canterbury-Hurunui Music, movies and birdsong at Terako Downs. Bring your instrument or use our guitar for a jam session. Wine tasting. Relax. All welcome including tents. ckw.nz/terako | ckw.nz/terako-rsvp Spring camp at Foxton Beach Fri, 25 Oct – 28, Foxton Beach Labour Weekend at Foxton Beach School. Grassy space for tents and camping vehicles of all kinds. Access to the school hall with toilets and kitchen. On Sunday head along to the Foxton Spring Fling. ckw.nz/foxton | ckw.nz/foxton-rsvp Spring camp, Kai Iwi Holiday Park TBC TO BE CONFIRMED: Oct, Northland check: ckw.nz/apc-events Steampunk the Thames camp TBC Fri 8–11 Nov, Thames, Hauraki TO BE CONFIRMED: check: ckw.nz/apc-events Castle Claremont Fri, 15–17 Nov, Canterbury How wonderful to stay at yet another amazing location! Tents welcome. Toilets available. Join us as we stroll through the woodlands. Enjoy the magical surroundings as you relax in the garden and enjoy the birds. ckw.nz/claremont | ckw.nz/claremont-rsvp CampFest 2025 Fri 21–23 Feb Bulls Domain Easter camp, Patea 2025 TBC Taranaki check: ckw.nz/apc-events Canterbury meetup Monthly meetups Catch up with local campers: share places, stories and plan new camps. GET THE LATEST: ckw.nz/apc-fb-events Wellington different each month, so find us on facebook. ckw.nz/apc-fb-events Canterbury 2nd Wed each month at 11am. Legends Room, Hornby Club, 17 Carmen Road, Christchurch Join us for barista coffee, stay on for lunch or enjoy the variety of stores. Plenty of parking for larger vehicles. Up Up 8 Winter 2024 , p 42

8 Winter 2024 8 Winter 2024 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption My stew is bubbling Franziska My stew is bubbling on the fire and I’m contemplating getting a bit more level. I’m on a bit of a lean and my carrot went rolling off the bench LOL. Franzisca ©2024 RV and Tiny House Living NZ Up Up 8 Winter 2024 , p 15

8 Winter 2024 Winter 2024 ISSUE 8 BUY PDF CONTENTS Click on image for full view and caption GO TO Autumn Gold Hakataramea Pass David Liddall Hakataramea Pass ©2024 David Liddall Up Up 8 Winter 2024 , p 17

12 Winter 2025 ISSUE 12 BUY PDF ToC Click on image for full view and caption chilly-stuck2_H.webp GO TO Chilly chilly chilly out there I was bogged for the night! Stuck! Heather Auckram Oh no! After all the rain in the deep south the gravel track had turned to slush. I was bogged for the night! The next morning two heroes turned up in the pouring rain and hauled my campervan out of the water logged mud with a hefty chain and their trusty Huffer machine. Eternally grateful to you, Nathan and Dougie. ©2025 Heather Auckram Up Up 12 Winter 2025 , p 9

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Autumn 2023 ISSUE 3 BUY PDF CONTENTS Click on image for full view and caption Autumn2023-cover_H.jpg Camping the Kiwi Way, 3, Autumn 2023 Editor Table of contents • Editorial • For councils and government Come camping • Stop and Stay Contribute • About Cover image: Morisons Bush ©2022 Margaret Earle We bring you travel stories, tips, wonderful places to visit, insight into political changes, some solid information, a puzzle, light reading, serious reading and some fun browsing. Buy a copy, subscribe for a year's worth of copies, read it on paper, read it here or read the pdf. The choice is yours. Only $12 a copy delivered, $36 for 4 issues. BUY Featured in this issue CAMP FEST Family friendly tramping A beautiful country but... Saving rural communities? RV businesses and services Camping the Kiwi WayMagazine Issue 3, Autumn 2023 ISSN:2815-8261 (Print) ISSN 2815-827X (Online) © 2023 All Points Camping Club of NZ Inc Editor: Miriam Richardson editor@campingthekiwiway.org.nz campingthekiwiway.org.nz Published quarterly by All Points Camping Club of NZ Inc & NZ Lifestyle Camping Ltd Advertising editor@campingthekiwiway.org.nz ckw.nz/advertising Classified Ads ckw.nz/classifieds Share your group in the next issue Contributions are invited from individuals and camping (or related) clubs. If your group or club is promoting NZers enjoying our great outdoors, we would like to share your stories.Tenting, caravanning, motorhoming, van camping, bike camping, hiking and more. • Your camping photos and stories. Your club stories and photos. Upcoming events that include camping. Opinion pieces on camping issues. Technical / helpful articles. Photos 1mb or more in size. Email words and (separate) images: editor@campingthekiwiway.org.nz Contributions close • May 1 for the Winter issue For late-breaking articles talk to the editor. Up Up 3 Autumn 2023 , p 1

4 Winter 2023 Winter 2023 ISSUE 4 BUY PDF CONTENTS Up One hundred nights a year Andrew Morton Up I am on track with my original goal of 100 nights away per year and mountain bike as much as I can in other regions. I just hit 3,000km on my mountain biking tally (non ebike!), 200 nights tonight in 20 months. I am marking the occasion with other teardrops at Orton Bradley Park on Lyttleton Harbour. I got a ‘healthy camper’ check done in Christchurch, having hauled it 15,000km so far. It passed with flying colours, and I look forward to many more trips. Images ©2023 Andrew Morton Up Up 1/0 ISSN 2815-827X (Online) | ISSN:2815-8261 (Print) editor@campingthekiwiway.org