We are certainly enjoying our NZ experience. We took a fantastic boat trip in the Bay of Islands and saw the Hole in the Rock, the Cape Brett Lighthouse, Russell (use to be known as the Hell Hole of the Pacific) and the island Urupukapuka where Zane Grey use to live and do his Marlin fishing when not writing his western novels. We stayed on a farm stay (a cheap camping option)....what a farm. Probably the roughest we have ever come across including our Austral...

Well here we are in NZ land of the long white cloud .......and a million whiz bangs. Well guess what....we're now one of them. OUr van is a VW diesel and very comfortable. Now we have sorted out where we are and where we are going all is well. It was a bit hairy and it took us 2 hours to find a caravan park once we had picked up the van. In the end we found one only about 5 klms away from where we started, We spent our second night in a lovely free camp in ...