3 Autumn 2023 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption ​ Festivals & Shows ​ Up Up 3 Autumn 2023 , p 35

8 Winter 2024 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption ​ Mountains have their own fingerprints Outdoorsman Dave The mountains have their own fingerprints and by understanding what the contour lines represent, may help you to determine the terrain ahead of you or where you might actually be on a topographic 50 map next time you are lost! ©2023 Outdoorsman Dave facebook.com/outdoorsman.dave Up Up 8 Winter 2024 , p 38

2 Summer 2022 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption ​ Back in the days — Circa 2008 Gary Stoneley Back in the days — Circa 2008. That caravan was damned heavy behind the bike. © 2022 Gary Stoneley Up Up 2 Summer 2022 , p 13

8 Winter 2024 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption APC_Communal dinner_H.webp Whanganui Vintage Weekend, 2024. ©2024 Margaret Earle come along my friends, come along... All Points Camping All Points Camping ALL POINTS CAMPING CLUB of NZ We are proud to sponsor this issue of Camping the Kiwi Way Brought to you by NZ’s inclusive, friendly, camping club, for your reading pleasure. Family membership to the All Points Camping Club gives you: Membership support Friendly, inclusive camping events Nationwide savings Lobbying support for campers’ rights. You don’t have to have a self-contained vehicle to join. You don’t have to be a member to come to our events.It’s more than just a club, it’s like one big family. Come along to one of our events near you. Bring the tent, bring the kids. Join now only $35NZ’s national camping club Join here: www.allpointscampingnz.org ✶ When the benefits far exceed the cost you’d be crazy not to take it up. ✶ Our values: compassion, inclusion, support and encouragement Image: ©2024 Margaret Earle Up Up 8 Winter 2024 , p 56

4 Winter 2023 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption ​ Greenies on the road: Managing food scraps Kath Irvine Last year in December, we sold up and hit the road in our Hino housetruck — a sharp learning curve and lots of broken crockery! but we’re loving it. The only thing I miss is the fresh herbs and vegies from my garden and the ease of recycling our food scraps. I’ve been turning our food scraps into compost for many a year now, and there’s no way I’m sending them to the landfill now. We chose to use bokashi buckets in our housetruck, as we already had them. A worm farm could also work, though bokashi is possibly more forgiving and takes all food waste — bones and shells included. Recycling, rubbish and bokashi buckets tucked up with the batteries. ©2023 Kath Irvine Bokashi buckets, are a 2 bucket system — one sitting inside the other. The food scraps go into the top bucket and are sprinkled with a special brew called compost zing. This looks like sawdust and is full of beneficial microbes that facilitate fermentation. The liquid drips into the bottom bucket, providing a power juice, full of microbes to pour on your crops. You need at least 2 sets because when one is full, it needs to sit and ferment for 10–14 days before using. Bokashi buckets are readily available to buy, but you can easily make them. All you need is 2 buckets the same size. Drill small holes all over the bottom of one bucket and sit it inside the other. The key factor is a sealed lid for the top bucket. The seal is important because like all fermentation, success relies on the exclusion of air. Put the buckets somewhere undercover, not too cold and out of direct sunlight (a little morning or afternoon sun is fine). There is no smell when the lid is on. And when you lift the lid, it smells like pickles. Rather than opening the bokashi every time you have food scraps, collect them in a small container and add them at the end of day. Start off by sprinkling a dusting of compost zing in the bottom of the top bucket and add your first lot of food scraps. Push them down firmly to exclude air (a potato masher is good for the squeamish), then sprinkle another dusting of compost zing on top. The zing gets the pickling happening and is the reason bokashi never smells. Close the lid so it clicks and seals. When a bucket is full to the brim, I move the new one in front and leave the other tucked behind to pickle away. Because bokashi is pre-fermented and alive with beneficial microbes, it incorporates into soil or compost quickly — such a simple, potent way to keep soil fertility up! Trenching bokashi into the garden. Edible Backyard. ©2023 Kath Irvine But what happens when you don’t have a garden? We are lucky, and most of the time, staying with switched on people who are excited to receive a bucket of bokashi into their garden. But its not always the case and extra hard in campgrounds where food scraps are still considered rubbish; I find it pretty shocking. Its an effort, I know, but once you get your set up happening, its easy as pie. We really must all be recycling our food scraps. “When food ends up in landfill, it decomposes without oxygen, and as a result, it releases methane, a harmful greenhouse gas. If food waste was a country, it would be the third largest producer of carbon emissions behind China and the United States.” lovefoodhatewaste.co.nz I used to take a bokashi bucket with us when we holidayed — it’s not such a big deal. The tricky part , when on the road, comes at the end, when its pickled and ready to go on the compost. Be creative and determined, and find places. And when you do — spread the word! The more of us that ask where we can compost our food waste, the more available it will become. Rankers have a sustainability filter to help you choose responsible camp sites — though whether this is meaningful or not, I’d have to do a bit more digging to know. A network to link travelling bokashi makers with domestic or commercial compost heaps would be a fine thing. Hop online and check with the local council. Perhaps there is a local composting facility or community garden you could drop off to. There are so many ways for camp grounds to properly manage food scraps! Pigs, chickens, worms, compost, there are even commercial-sized bokashi bins. If supermarkets in France can do it … Photos ©2023 Kath Irvine Up Up 4 Winter 2023 , p 9

3 Autumn 2023 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption ​ Autumn, Issue 3, Camping the Kiwi Way Miriam Richardson 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 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption ​ Pegs for tough weather Miriam Richardson These pegs drag into the ground when the wind pulls. Here is a commercial (yellow) peg: Here is a DIY (metal) version (Notice the celever useof red tape and a red tag to make them easy to find in the grass.) This blue peg is also very streng. It uses a second peg to anchor it more firmly in the ground. Photos ©2023 Miriam Richardson Up Up 4 Winter 2023 , p 13

8 Winter 2024 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption Fire circle ©2024 Bette Cosgrove Fire circle ©2024 Bette Cosgrove Fire circle ©2024 Bette Cosgrove Fire circle ©2024 Bette Cosgrove Fire circle ©2024 Bette Cosgrove ​ Fire circle Bette Cosgrove Fire circle on a still Autumn night. Magical. ©2024 Bette Cosgrove Up Up 8 Winter 2024 , p 9

4 Winter 2023 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption ​ Gold miner Wattie Thompson Roland Jones I started my travels around the South Island in late March 2023 in my campervan. I decided to travel the South Island anti-clockwise. Over to Nelson and down the coast, stopping at freedom camping sites. I love the natural surroundings that can be found at these back-of-the-way places. Lindis Pass Hotel ©2023 Roland Jones One such place was the Lindis Pass Hotel. I was intrigued by the history of this building. First set up in 1861 it became a permanent building in1873. As I explored the area, I came across this derelict house (above) built by Wattie Thompson who had panned the river for gold for over 50 years. Unfortunately, he went on the AirNZ Erebus flight to Antarctica and never returned. There is a full article which is interesting reading if you follow the link on 1964.co.nz . In the article it states that people are still looking for the place where he stashed his gold. However, I became friendly with another prospector on-site who told me that he left a letter to a farmer’s wife that if anything happened to him, she should read the letter. On opening the letter, it told her where to find the pickle jar containing 80ozs of gold. So the locals still searching are after fools’ gold — LOL. ©2023 Roland Jones Up Up 4 Winter 2023 , p 18

5 Spring 2023 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption A simple way to assess the likely stability of your own rig Why Caravans roll over… and how to prevent it Collyn Rivers An explanation in detail of every aspect of tow vehicle and caravan stability. The issue is not how your rig behaves in normal driving, it is what it will do in a strong emergency swerve, or hit by strong, high, side-wind, at speed. It gives you a simple way of assessing the likely stability of your own setup — and what you can do to make it very much safer. Book page: ckw.nz/why-roll Sample chapter: ckw.nz/why-roll-sample Kobo $13 AUD: ckw.nz/why-roll-kobo Nook $8 USD: ckw.nz/why-roll-nook Kindle $15 AUD: ckw.nz/why-roll-kindle Up Up 5 Spring 2023 , p 9

6 Summer 2023 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption pgdb-logo.webp ​ What to do? Miriam Richardson With the new self-containment system in disarray ( see p13 ), what do you do with your new build, conversion or upgrade? Four choices. Put it off for now. Wait to see if the new government will make changes which may remove the need or determine what work is required. Build/upgrade to meet the existing standard + fixed toilet (NZS 5465:2001) before June 2024 . Good for freedom camping until June 2025 (good elsewhere for 4 years). Decide not to freedom camp. Build/upgrade to meet the existing standard with a portable toilet. You can go to places like DOC, park over properties, and events that require certification. You can also use private campgrounds or join NZMCA for access to their national network of parks. Find a testing officer if you can ( p13 ). Ask what he wants you to do. Do it. Be one of the first with a green card More on Freedom camping and self-containment: The freedom camping law needs to change Self-containment certification: which one is yours? What to do? Upgrade? Wait? Editorial — Caught in the middle Who is advocating for NZers who camp? There’s no need to rush this summer NZ’s independent national network for certification Up Up 6 Summer 2023 , p 4

6 Summer 2023 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption 1988 Bringing inner tubes back to camp atfer blowing them up at a local garage 1973 My sisters Rhonda and Fiona cooking sausages on the fire 1988-e- Our old Van with and improvised awning and my friends ex police motorbike_mw.we 1988 Sitting on the big inner tube telling tall stories to friends kids_mw.webp 1988 Our old Van with improvised Awning and friends motor bike next the little carvan 1988 camp with old fomica bench under the trees and the often explosive Anchor Kerosene. 1988 Bringing inner tubes back to camp atfer blowing them up at a local garage 1988 Everyone on the big tube from a log loader. 1988 Everyone comes off the big tube from a log loader 1993 Our baby daughters bath on her first trip to Morisons bush 1994 Whanua set up at camp 1995 Christmas Morning ready for presents 1995 Christmas Day 1995 Collecting driftwood for the fire was part of the routine then No fires are allowed now. 2000 Our son's 7th birthday 2000 the kids sit at their own table for christmas 2001 Christmas Dinner 2001 Jan hasty pack up as the river floods. We only needed to move out for about 6 hours 2001 Roast dinner from the camp ovens off the fire. Sadly fires no longer allowed 2003 3 caravans and Mum has a camper now 2006 setting up camp 2007 a large dinning fly provides a good communal space 2007 doing dishes after shared meal 2007 Hamocks between the trees 2007 Kids ready for a swim ​ 50 years of camping at Morison’s Bush Graham Leslie A lot of families have a special place they go to camp year after year, ours is Morison’s Bush. I think it was 1973 when I first went camping at Morison’s Bush, but I believe people were camping and picnicking there for many years before that. In some ways it is nothing special — just a grassy area under rugged old manuka trees in a big sweeping bend of the Ruamahanga River. It is between Greytown and Martinborough, at the very end of Glenmorven Road in the southern Wairarapa. But in other ways it is my family’s special happy place where we have camped together over the last 50 years. Mostly we’ve camped there for the long weekends in summer. View of Morisons Bush from the road in. 1973 My sisters Rhonda and Fiona cooking. 1998 Bringing inner tubes to camp after blowing them up at a local garage. 1970 & 80s In the 1970s we camped there as young teenagers with our parents. One time our father rigged a flying fox between the trees and set up a block and tackle swing to lift ourselves up into the trees to the flying fox. In 1986 when we were grown up, didn’t have much money, and almost no camping gear, we returned to Morison’s Bush for the New Year break. We brought our friends who at that time were solo mums with babies on their hips and a motley collection of other young adults. We arrived on several motor bikes, an almost-tidy Morris Minor and a very beat-up old Morris J4 van. Mrs Morison, the owner at the time, thought we looked a bit rough and warned us to behave. She didn’t realise it would be a very quiet camp with the need to get the babies to sleep and our relative poverty limiting our alcohol budget. We took the seats out of the vehicles to provide deck chairs. left 1988 Our old van with improvised awning and friend’s motorbike, next to the little caravan that was then Mum & Dads and has now been passed down, via us, to our son. right 1988 The old formica bench under the trees and the often explosive Anchor Kerosene pressure lantern in the near tree. Later we scored an old Formica bench top we set up on trestles for food preparation. We generally cooked on a campfire. Our tents were small. Later, one of the girls made us a toilet tent to go over a hole we dug for a toilet. Our favourite pastime was floating down the river on vehicle inner tubes. The best tyre was from a forestry log loader on which we could sit half a dozen people at a time. My parents and sisters also joined our weekends away, although they often liked to camp a bit separate from us. 1990s In the 1990s our children and their cousins were born and came to camp at Morison’s Bush as babies (our son was 5 days old for his first camp). With annual trips for Christmas, New Year, Anniversary and Waitangi weekends, Morison’s Bush became the place where we could reflect on how the kids had grown from last year. Slowly the camping gear increased with bits that were homemade or bought secondhand, and eventually caravans and campers were added to the mix. Being relatively close to Wellington, friends and their families often joined us for a day or days. As our children grew older, they invited their friends and eventually set up their own parallel camps. It was great when the young people did their own catering and we, the older generation, enjoyed nice food and drink amongst ourselves. 1993 Our baby daughter’s bath on her first trip to Morisons Bush. left 1995 Whanau set-up at camp. 1995 Christmas Day. above left 1995 Collecting driftwood for the fire was part of the routine then. No fires are allowed now. 2000s Now we are the grandparents, and we watch our grandchildren finding their feet at Morison’s Bush. The repeated visits over the years have marked the different stages of our lives. We have had multiple Christmases and birthdays and a wedding there. For us Morison’s Bush remains a special place and we hope to enjoy relaxing there for many more years. The land now belongs to Brian Tucker and he has been a good host and charges a small fee for camping. There is now a permanent fire ban, and unfortunately the Ruamahanga river is not so clean. A couple of long drop toilets have been installed. In the old days, almost everyone camped in tents but now there are more caravans and campers. You need to bring your own water and take away all rubbish. Pets are allowed but need to be kept under control. 2016 Still collecting firewood but the kids do the work. Still some green paint on the trailer. 2001 Christmas Dinner. above 2001 A hasty pack up as the river floods. 2007 A large dinning fly provides a good communal space. above 2011 Cards in the afternoon. above 2016 Our niece’s wedding group shot. 2023 All Points Club camp, Waitangi weekend: returning for Waitangi 2024. right 2023 Grandad tries to have an afternoon nap All Points Camping is planning its second camp there from 2 to 6 February 2024 (p35); maybe I will see you there. n Up Up 6 Summer 2023 , p 27