2 Summer 2022 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption Freedom Camping Just some little creek on the side of the road in Central Otago, where our car broke down. Adrienne Leslie (mother) with Rhonda and Graham Adrienne Leslie (mother) with Rhonda and Graham ©2022 Graham Leslie Graham Leslie at Spec Creek ©2022 Graham Leslie Rhonda Leslie at Spec Creek ©2022 Graham Leslie ​ Freedom camping, November 1964 Graham Leslie One of my first memories of camping was at ‘Spec Creek’. You won’t find it on a map — it was just some little creek on the side of the road, somewhere in Central Otago, where our car (an old 1930 Model A Ford) broke down. There was nothing there. Mum and Dad built a dam of stones to make a bit of a swimming area (knee deep) where we floated around on Lilos. I don’t know how long we stayed there. Maybe a week, as car parts had to come from Auckland. The weather was good, and I remember it as a legendary holiday. The things memories are made of. Take your children camping: they will never forget it. Adrienne Leslie (mother) with Rhonda and Graham. Photos ©2022 Graham Leslie Up Up 2 Summer 2022 , p 14

5 Spring 2023 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption New caravan The Desert Road Margaret Earle The Desert Road On our first road trip with our new caravan. We made it successfully from Wellington to Whangarei. ©2023 Margaret Earle Up Up 5 Spring 2023 , p 8

8 Winter 2024 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption At Rays Rest Friday evening and Saturday morning at Rays Rest. It never disappoints. © 2024 Greg Lokes. At Rays Rest Friday evening and Saturday morning at Rays Rest. It never disappoints. © 2024 Greg Lokes. ​ Post box at Rays Rest Greg Lokes Post box at Rays Rest Greg Lokes Rays Rest. It never disappoints. More on p11 ©2024 Greg Lokes FB: Gregs Eye ckw.nz/gregs-eye Up Up 8 Winter 2024 , p 22

2 Summer 2022 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption Bright Street car park, allowed overnight parks. 'Blue box' method of marking. Bright Street car park, allowed overnight parks. 'Blue box' method of marking. Makarori car park, allowed overnight parks. 'Blue box' method of marking. Midway Surf Club car park. 'Blue box' method of marking. Midway Surf Club car park. 'Blue box' method of marking. Paint the signs: protect the camper Painted signs on the actual car parks is a straightforward way to designate parks that are not hard up against each other. This matters even more when the parks are the right width for cars, but not for larger vehicles. These bylaws clearly follow the intent of the Freedom Camping Act and look to be the perfect example for other districts Freedom camping on the East Cape Bette Cosgrove and Miriam Richardson Gisborne District Council have very clear freedom camping bylaws which demand waste management, #leavenotrace principles. ckw.nz/gisborne They also ask you to apply for a free camping permit to use their many beautiful sites during summer. A good management strategy. You must have at least one portable chemical toilet between a max of 8 people. This is required for tents as well as vehicles. Vehicles need to be ‘self-contained’ but there is no demand for vehicles to be ‘certified self contained (CSC)’. They tell you where to find rubbish transfer stations and expect all campers to be responsible with their waste (or you can be fined). These bylaws clearly follow the intent of the Freedom Camping Act and look to be the perfect example for other districts, to ensure we can safely use our public land and take care of the environment. They also require 2.5m space between camp sites, for fire safety. Sadly, in the carparks they havent considered fire safety, and have taken a ‘blue box on a map’ approach to limiting freedom camping. The unsafe ‘blue-box-on-a-map’ approach to limiting freedom camping in a car park. (Shown: Bright St and Midway) The alternative approach is a ‘marked parks’ approach (such as in Whakatane, pictured), which spreads the overnight parks out within the carpark, so that no two are too close together. We can hope they will extend fire safety to overnight vehicles in carparks some time soon. Up Up 2 Summer 2022 , p 24

7 Autumn 2024 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption Vintage caravan No room for a fixed toilet. ©2024 Bette Cosgrove Chameleon, an older caravan. No room for a fixed toilet. ©2024 M Richardson Probably all these campers at Lowburn freedom camp have cassette toilets that are not vented. No more freedom camping for them. Cassettes dont need to be vented to work right, but the new regulations require it, an expensive process requiring drilling holes in the structure. ©2024 M Richardson Older caravan No room for a fixed toilet. ©2024 Bette Cosgrove Van camping No room for a fixed toilet. ©2024 Bette Cosgrove Older caravan No room for a fixed toilet. ©2024 Bette Cosgrove Poptop ©2024 Bette Cosgrove Fixed casstete toilet, but not vented. Does the motorhome smell when the toilet is used? No. Cassettes dont need to be vented to work right, but the new regulations require it, an expensive process requiring drilling holes in the structure. ©2024 M Richardson Van camping No room for a fixed toilet. ©2024 Heather Aukram North Island freedom camping road trip No room for a fixed toilet. ©2024 Shoshanna Shand Vintage caravan No room for a fixed toilet. ©2024 Gary Hitchock Portable toilet or cassette toilet. Cassettes dont need to be vented to work right, but the new regulations require it, an expensive process requiring drilling holes in the structure. ©2024 M Richardson Rooftop tent No room for a fixed toilet. ©2024 Bette Cosgrove Teardrop No room for a fixed toilet. ©2024 Bette Cosgrove Fixed, cassette toilet, but not vented. Cassettes dont need to be vented to work right, but the new regulations require it, an expensive process requiring drilling holes in the structure. ©2024 M Richardson Tear drop and a van with a portable toilet. No room for a fixed toilet. ©2024 Bette Cosgrove Poptop and toilet tent. ©2024 Dallas Hibbs No room for a fixed toilet. ©2024 M Richardson ​ No more freedom camping Bette Cosgrove No more freedom camping for these responsible campers. No room for a fixed loo… Watch the slideshow, above. Poptop. Articles in this issue on the freedom camping law changes: Predictable problems with the new CSC green warrant system (p2) Editorial (p3) Self-containment warrant cards: Which one is yours? (p6) So you want to freedom camp (p8) What is ‘self-contained’, anyway? (p10) Enforcement of freedom camping rules (p12) I am not freedom camping' cards (p14) Do your bit: Task of the week (p16) No more freedom camping (p16) Kaikōura: the freedom camping Wild West (p18) Hey NZ Govt? You are messing with my mental health (p20) 7 days a week (p21) Celebrating Summer (p5) Up Up 7 Autumn 2024 , p 16

1 Spring 2022 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption Let’s make sure that both we and future generations can go camping Let’s go camping: Editorial Miriam Richardson, Gary Stoneley Camping the Kiwi Way brings you the positive side of camping in NZ. Camping in NZ is a healthy, lifestyle, and recreational activity enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of NZ campers and overseas visitors each year. Most are responsiible campers. Weekend or long term campers, people who stay at campgrounds or those who freedom camp — most leave no trace. The more NZ families that get out and enjoy our wonderful country the better. NZ needs each new generation to get a chance to experience the pleasures and challenges of our wild and beautiful country. #campingthekiwiway This magazine aims to help people find clubs and groups that will encourage and support their camping, in all its forms, and to provide a place for groups to share their events and stories, and attract new members. We hope this magazine and the #campingthekiwiway brand will unite the many different camping groups we have in NZ to create a unified voice and energy for sustainable camping for current and future generations of New Zealanders. Over the past decade the media has been swamped with stories of irresponsible campers, yet most of our country's campers do the right thing. Whether using public or onboard toilet facilities, or in accordance with the age old practice digging a hole and burying it: only a very few of thousands of campers create a problem. Showing freedom camping in a bad light may sell newspapers and create strong discussion but it doesn't help build a good future for camping in our country. The public consultation on the recent Nash proposals has shown us that the NZ leisure camping industry is seriously fractured, with multiple opposing agendas. Industry, government and camping groups are not working together as they should. Let's work together, with positive stories and helpful information about camping in New Zealand. Share your group's stories and promote your events in this magazine. Add the #campingthekiwiway hash tag to your social media posts and photographs. Miriam Richardson, Editor Gary Stoneley, All Points Camping CLub of NZ ______ This issue is kindly sponsored by the All Points Camping Club of NZ and NZ Lifestyle Camping. Camping the Kiwi Way follows on from the NZ Lifestyle Camping magazine (All Points Camping Club of NZ and NZ Lifestyle Camping). Photo: ©2022 William Anna & Stewart Leslie with Adrienne camping 1958 Up Up 1 Spring 2022 , p 4

2 Summer 2022 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption ​ How many freedom campers are there? Bette Cosgrove and Miriam Richardson Nobody knows. The Ministry has made some guesses. 'Certified self contained' freedom campers MBIE, the government ministry charged with providing the Minister of Tourism with facts, does not know how many freedom camping vehicles there are. They do not know how many private vehicles, that are currently certified self contained, would become ineligible because their toilets are not fixed (if the law changes, as proposed). They have estimated (because they do not know) that there are 73,000 vehicles currently certified, all of which have usable toilets, but they do not know what kind of toilet. [ ckw.nz/mbie-numbers MBIE estimates the rental fleet at 5,000 vehicles, and they do not know how many of those have fixed or non-fixed toilets either. Responsible, but uncertified freedom campers MBIE does not know how many New Zealanders use their vehicles to freedom camp. How many freedom campers shit in the bushes? MBIE do not know. They have an estimate from a small survey, of how many don't use their onboard toilets, but they did not ask, so they do not know, how many of those used public toilets instead. See Talking to four van loads of international tourists for some real life information on this. How many NZ travellers, not camping, get caught short and use the bushes as a loo? MBIE do not know, and I don't think they have even considered this, nor the inadequate provision of public facilities across the country. They, and we, can pretty safely assume that travellers that don't expect to camp probably don't carry a toilet (fixed or unfixed) with them. All in all, an appalling lack of facts All in all, the lack of facts underlying the proposed legislative changes is pretty appalling. These changes will affect New Zealanders for generations to come, and are being rushed through, regardless of a profound lack of facts. Up Up 2 Summer 2022 , p 4

3 Autumn 2023 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption I am currently helping my daughter build her own camper as she wants to take a gap year and see our beautiful country. ©2023 Crispian I am currently helping my daughter build her own camper as she wants to take a gap year and see our beautiful country. ©2023 Crispian My daughter building her own camper ©2023 Crispian My daughter building her own camper ©2023 Crispian The dog helps. ©2023 Crispian My daughter building her own camper ©2023 Crispian ​ Gap year Crispian I am currently helping my daughter build her own camper as she wants to take a gap year and see our beautiful country. Crispian Up Up 3 Autumn 2023 , p 19

8 Winter 2024 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption Beautiful phone Take phone to a beautiful lake-edge perch. Engage with phone. Return to van. Drive away. It takes all kinds. Lake Wanaka. © 2024 M Richardson Beautiful phone Take phone to a beautiful lake-edge perch. Engage with phone. Return to van. Drive away. It takes all kinds. Lake Wanaka. © 2024 M Richardson ​ The phone is beautiful M Richardson Take phone to a beautiful lake-edge perch. Engage with phone. Return to van. Drive away. It takes all kinds. Lake Wanaka. © 2024 M Richardson Up Up 8 Winter 2024 , p 17

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6 Summer 2023 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption Self-containment-which.jpg ​ Self-containment certification: Which one is yours? Miriam Richardson Here are the different kinds of certification cards. We dont know what the green card looks like yet. For clarity: No blue card can be used for freedom camping after 6 June 2025. [Revised, Editor] Certified Blue before 6/23 (any toilet) OK to freedom camp on public land† until 6 June 2025 (or until your card expiry date, if it is sooner). [Revised 12/12/23, Editor] OK on private or commercial properties, crown land (that isn’t LINZ or council-controlled land), club sites, organised events and anywhere payment is made. Good for 4 years or until the card expires. Certified Blue fixed toilet OK to freedom camp on public land† until 6 June 2025 (or until your card expiry date, if it is sooner). [Revised 12/12/23, Editor] OK on private or commercial properties, crown land (that isn’t LINZ or council-controlled land), club sites, organised events and anywhere payment is made. Good for 4 years or until the card expires. Certified Blue portable toilet You may not freedom camp on public land †. OK on private or commercial properties, crown land (that isn’t LINZ or council-controlled land), club sites, organised events and anywhere payment is made. Good for 4 years or until the card expires. NEW: Certified Green(fixed toilet only) OK to freedom camp on public land†. Lasts 4 years. (Not yet available.) OK on private or commercial properties, crown land (that isn’t LINZ or council-controlled land), club sites, organised events and anywhere payment is made. Good for 4 years or until the card expires. [We dont know what the green card will look like. Ed] Identify which kind of self containment you have, and be clear about where you are allowed to camp, so you can avoid fines and hassles The new freedom camping law specifically states that ‘short term parking’, and ‘ day-trip excursions,’ are not freedom camping. Recovering from driver fatigue continues to be allowed, and is, specifically, legally, not ‘freedom camping’. † What is ‘public land’? All land managed by district and local councils is covered. This can include land otherwise controlled by NZTA, LINZ or DOC. Currently LINZ has 5 freedom camping areas in Central Otago and the McKenzie Country, and the new law applies. As at Nov 2024 DOC has made no changes relating to self-containment: the existing standard applies (portable or fixed toilet) for sites that require self-containment. ckw.nz/linz 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

2 Summer 2022 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption ​ Nokomai station Dallas Hibbs Nokomai station on the way to Queenstown. We went there as kids; now we take our kids there. © 2022 Dallas Hibbs Up Up 2 Summer 2022 , p 35