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We left Christchurch for Akaroa, on the Banks Peninsula. We journeyed over a hilltops high enough that we were, for a time, driving through cloud. Descending, the views of Akaroa's natural harbour were pretty, but limited by low cloud. Our camping spot for the night was just a minute's walk from the water's edge - another lovely spot.
Happy to share that I test mounted everything and it all works! Getting over 400W charging from b2b + solar! Have it charging on shore power right now for the initial charge.
As I mentioned in the post yesterday, we were in for a bit of
Weather with several weather warnings overnight. We found a
powered site to plug in over night as we had done very few km's
the day before as well as being on the 3nd day with no sun to
charge the batteries. This was out the back of a small town called
Brightwater (the birth place of Sir Ernest Ruderford - the Guy
that split the atom).
It took much longer to pack and get the house ready for our house sitter who is looking after the 7 sheep, new lamb, the chooks (chickens for all you that don't speak real english) and the two cats... This mean that we didn't get away at luch time like we had planned but ended up leaving at about 7pm. We had planned on spending the first night of our adventures at my mother's but as we left so late we stopped about 1/2 way there at a free-camping spot in Matamata.
You may have seen the first two post about our up and coming adventures. I plan to make semi-regular posts of our tring around New Zealand in !OurCamper@no.lastname.nz
We were hoping to pick up the camper on Friday, after the gas hot water had been fixed. The seller went to fire it up the morning we looked at the van but it wouldn't stay alight. After getting the gas fitter out during the week it now needs parts that hopefully will be fitted on Monday.
During the pandemic I stripped this to a bare shell, Welded it and replaced some panels, rebuilt the engine and painted it. Here is the result. I also have a yellow T2 that I did after...
Here a small list of campervan meetings in 2023. I decided to keep past meetings in it just for the curious. I think it's far from complete but feel free to add more in the comments.
Feddit.online
BlueÆther
Matt The Horwood
BoofStroke
ProdigalFrog
well5H1T3
Sir_Kevin
JerichoRamirez
tallwookie
