LEAF meet Vera the van
We picked up our 3+2 Traifinder from Freedom Campers today, from their depot just outside Aukland. After stocking up on food and other provisions at a nearby shopping centre we took to the road on the N1 North. 99 km later we arrived at a Maharungi Regional Park ‘Informal’ camp site by the beach in Sullivan’s Bay. This unserviced site with toilets, a cold water tap and a cool Ranger on an ATB was cheap and cheerful. A great introduction to campervanning. We followed a nature trail around the headland, wading over an estuary to visit an historic graveyard, full of Scots who settled here in the late 19th C. Despite our tide table research we found the water to be alarmingly high when we returned to the estuary. We still managed to cross by wading, not swimming and returned to the van for lunch. Given that the Spring weather is very changeable these days the van is great. We’ve come through the last 2 days of storms (which have taken roofs off houses and electricity cables down) in comfort, apart from the rear awning being ripped off the van last night, but that’s another story.
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