Donna Bosson

What a great time we had at Ohau B Canal. On-route we stopped for the weekly laundry trip in Twizel before coming to rest alongside the canal with several other RV’s/caravans. Within minutes of arriving we met the couple in the RV in front when they opened up their rear […]

We spent an extra night at Ranfurly and the following morning  we were invited over to the “White House’ for coffee and home-made pikelets (my contribution). We were in awe of the motor home, the lounge was enormous; and the kitchen was not much smaller. They also had a large […]

We left Balclutha and headed towards Tuapeka with the view to crossing the Clyde on the ferry but sadly we were too long to fit…..sometimes size matters. We also considered staying at the heritage site for the night but it was extremely damp and so we moved on…………… We reviewed […]

Following our 24 hour interlude at Paptowai we headed for Purakaunui where we intended to spend the night after almost off-roading up a steep hill. We arrived at the DOC camp however the ground was really soft following rain and there were no areas to safely park. The beach was […]

Here we are at the southernmost tip of the South Island in Bluff. We made contact with our new travel friends Warren and Toni whom we met at Lake Te Anau and they had arranged two options for our stay in Bluff – one was at the back of the […]

Spent a second night at the NZMCA in Te Anau mainly due to the wonderful companions who arrived late on the first day and who also had two little white dogs (although not Westies); Warren and Toni are from Bluff and were taking their caravan for it’s maiden voyage. We […]

Day 1 – Fanghorn Forest We left Hamilton Burn early in the morning (temperature overnight had dropped to under 0 degrees), while the earth was still frozen and had no difficulty extricating ourselves from the farm. We thanked Macka for his hospitality and gave him a donation for power/water  use […]

Well here we are on Hamilton Burn; a farm just over the border in Southland. This is a park over property so not available to the masses. We packed up this morning after a last night at the Glenorchy Pub having had a slap-up dinner and a few drinks and […]

So the intrepid quad are currently hunkered down on a canal near Twizel watching the rain in the comfort of Dogonit. We stayed at the Combined Services Club in Twizel……not much to say we paid $5.00 to stay out the back and almost got stuck in the mud at one […]

It has been a pretty busy day today……an early start to check in for our 6 monthly COF which we passed (would have been extremely surprised if we didn’t lol). We took the dogs for a walk and found The Warehouse where we needed to pick up a stainless steel […]