Auckland Campgrounds - Reviews and Rates

I spent the month of November on a tour of New Zealand - North and South islands. Highlights: - A 'heli-hike' on the Fox glacier. We were taken up on to the glacier by helicopter then spent a couple of hours exploring the ice features - tunnels, crevasses etc. Awesome! - Snowy mountain walks in the Tongariro and Mount Cook national parks - Arriv...

Looking at my face in the mirror this morning I decided: I am too old to be drunk for three days. Honestly! It started Friday, late afternoon, as I ended my last day of work (having been working seven days a week for the last thirty days!!!) and went out for 'tea' with some girls from work and Olivia's parents. A few bottles of wine later and I ...

Day 203 - Rick had already left for work when I got up after a really great nights sleep sprawling in a double bed! After taking Bonnie for a walk I went with Linda into Te Awamutu and as she went off to her interview, I had a while to exlpore the town and look in all the little shops on the main street. I sat on a bench in the sun and soaked up...

While I was stretching my legs, I noticed the Queens Street Crossing. Similar to Flinders back home, in the way it allowed all to cross at once, but with two magor changes. First, the green man appears to walk in stride. Second, as soon as the flashing red signal appears, a 24 second clock starts to let youknow how much time you have to get acro...

We made it we landed in Auckland international Airport at 8 pm on the 14th of February. We when through Immigration and then I was stopped in customs because of my rugby boots. I guess NZ is so pure that they don't want any new or foreign dirt in their country so i had to show that my boots were clean, they were. so i was able to get my luggage ...

Is it ever hard to keep in touch when an old van is basecamp! We successfully lived in a tent for 11 days and it only rained one morning....the last morning! Rain in the morning sucks because the tent has to be packed wet, and when it's wet many things stick to it like sand and grass, and then the New Zealand authorities confiscate it at customs...

After breaking in the Bobby Dazzler on the roads up north it was time to return to Auckland and venture further south into unknown territory. We decided a few nights on the booze in Auckland would be needed to settle the nerves first. Checked back into base Auckland (our home away from home) and stumbled upon the English boys i.e. Wilfy, Toby an...

went to the top of mt eden one of 70 dormant volcanoes in the region, and you get 360 deg views of auckland, then we made our way to the coromandel peninsula, a place renowned for its stunning beaches and alot of untouched native nz forest, we got on a walking trail that led us down to a secluded beach called cathedral cove, it was beautiful apa...

Today is day three of our New Zealand escape and it wasn't without incident. Traveling with two kids under two has it's own pitfalls, but amongst the tantrums, the vomiting and multiple connections we finally made it to our destination. Grace was by far the worst traveler of us all refusing to sleep and responsible for both the tantrum and vomit...

It was a long, grueling flight but I've arrived. It wasn't really that bad. I had a lot of room and the food wasn't that bad. Can you believe it??? I'm tired but happy. The reunion with Dana was awesome. Had many encounters with energy drinks, keeping me awake most of the day. Got to see my first glimpse of limestone caves, when Dana and I went ...