After boarding our ferry in Picton we were on our way to the north island. We’ve heard this can be a rough ride in stormy weather, but we’d picked a lovely sunny day so it was fine. We arrived in Wellington, the most built up city we’d seen in New Zealand so far, which also…
Needing to make up some miles we drove north in the dark for a couple of hours to a small town called Luggate, south of Lake Wanaka. The Luggate cricket club has had the genius idea of renting out the grass around their pitch to campers and caravans. For a few quid we had a…
The next day we had a lot of driving to do so got up really early and started our journey in the dark. We reached Curio Bay on the south coast for the early morning low tide so that we could see the petrified forest – the remains of 180 million year old trees that…
Next we headed down to Hervey Bay, stopping on the way to pick up a hitchhiker, Glen, who was hitching his way down the east coast. He was an interesting chap to say the least, and told us he hadn’t been to Hervey Bay since the second week of November 2009. When we commented on…
The next morning we left our free campsite and drove 120km south to Airlie Beach. We’d heard it was beautiful there, and we wanted to do a trip to the Whitsunday Islands so we booked a couple of nights at the Seabreeze campsite. We’d been living in Bruce for nearly two weeks and this was…
After an early morning start from Rifle Creek we headed back down south to Cairns. It felt a little odd that we’d been in Bruce for six days already but not even made it a mile south from where we’d collected him towards our destination of Sydney. We weren’t too bothered though, as we knew…
The next leg of our journey was a road trip down the east coast of Australia, from Cooktown to Sydney. It’s easy to forget how utterly huge Australia is – this is the equivalent of driving from Scotland to Italy! We couldn’t wait though, and for this epic mission we would need a campervan worthy…
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