It has taken nearly twelve months to get to this stage but we were finally in a position to give the camper a try out. We drove down to Lorne to visit Gaels folks and got rained on heavily on the way. As well as giving the truck a wash it also highlighted my faulty workmanship re window installation. I wet my bed!! That is to say water got in around the window gasket in large quantities and also washed my mattress. A tube of silastic later and the problem appears...

The camper photos attached show progress up to as of now. There are still a few more things to do but basically all the hard work is done. The whole process as documented has taken 12 months less 6 weeks spent in New Zealand in March 2009. That equates to one person full time on the job. There was a lot of learning and trial and error that slowed the build down as I had no prior experience working with these fiberglass composite materials. Having said that, I ...

After retiring in 2005 from working in the education and training sectors we got to work on building a home on our 34 acre property in lovely Clydesdale deep in the gold fields country of central Victoria, Australia. After completing our passive solar house Rob got restless and needed a new project. "Why not build a new lightweight camper on our old 1996 Land rover Defender that will fit in a shipping container and drive around the world." he said.....OK!!!!!!......