Blogs from Oceania - page 9

We flew early to Christchurch in the South Island from Auckland after a terrible night sleep in a beautiful boondock spot along the bay just minutes from the city center. Unfortunately some partygoers decided to get raging drunk and were smashing beer bottles during the night. There's always one night of idiots while boondocking, let's hope that was it for the trip. We picked up our beautiful 17 ft. Toyota campervan that would be our home for the next 11 days. It was a huge upgrade for us, our first van being functional but this being cozy and luxurious by comparison. We drove a few hours north up the coast ending at the seaside town of Kaikoura. This town is one of the best places on earth to snorkel with dolphins in the wild and the ... read more

Sunday 24 th March, DenhamBlue Dolphin Caravan ParkCost $50 per nightRated by us 6/10Mileage 15524 travelled 218KmNice slow start to the day getting on the road before the flies became too bad, they have been awful the last couple of days.The road to Denham is one we have travelled before but it was still interesting to see the dry land, the trees are struggling I think the rain has not happened here either.Made coffee this morning which was good we had it on the road minus flies yippee. Arrived in Denham early lunch time and impressed ourselves with setting up including our first attempt at putting out the floor mats, we had it all ready to go in less than half and hour we are definitely getting better.Sat pondering the use we had ... read more

Wednesday 27 th March, DenhamBlue Dolphin Caravan ParkCost $50 per nightRated by us 6/10Mileage 15524 travelled 0kmLooking forward to a different day today, started with dropping Tippy off at Kate’s for doggy day care, his first trip. Kate seems nice, we took his chain and his bed and some treats for her to use and I am sure he will be OK. Down to the Commercial Jetty for 8.15 to book onto our day cruise to Dirk Hartog Island.The boat over was an open ferry type small boat and with only six passengers we got individual service from Gracie the captain and Abby the tour guide. Passengers were Rob and Tony friends from Amsterdam, Alex and Andrew from London and us nice crowd. The trip over was a bit rough and I was ... read more

Friday 29 h March, CarnarvaonBig4 Plantation Caravan ParkCost $46.75 per night with membershipRated by us 8/10Mileage 15865 travelled 132kmUp early this morning in an attempt to get packed up before it gets too hot. Looks like the flies don't go to bed they were worse than every this morning. The whole camp was on the move early most heading to Coral Bay and or Exmouth, both of which we are giving a wide birth this trip as they will be packed for school holidays. With only a short drive we arrived in Carnarvaon at 9.30am and were unable to get on the camp site. We headed down into the town centre as it is Good Friday we were surprised to find the coffee shop open, typical Asian owners they work every day t ... read more

It was a very lazy day in Adelaide today. After breakfast we popped out to the Adelaide Market with Meredith to pick up a few items. The Adelaide Market is so vibrant and full of mouth-watering produce. There were cakes galore, but we resisted the temptation. It was much less busy than expected given it was the Wednesday before Easter which was very welcome as it made it easier to negotiate the aisles amongst the fruit and veg, nuts, meat and seafood. Later in the morning Meredith headed off to a lunchtime function and left us to our own devices. We meandered our way up to the Rundle Mall for a bit of window shopping. Which turned into actual shopping with Tracey purchasing a blouse in Myer. We had a bit to eat in the food ... read more