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Yummy brekkie

Rainbow trout and scrambled eggs… What a perfect start to the day! And there is plenty more trout for another few meals yet. Probably get sick of it by the time we’ve finished it! Spent far too long sitting in a library trying to post adverts about the car everywhere we could in the hope...

permalink written by  chrischarly on March 14, 2012 from Rawene, New Zealand
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly Down Under

THE BIGGEST TROUT IN THE WORLD!

We were so excited today to get our first text about the car! So we went and found a café to sit and email them, only for it to dawn on us that this is an obvious scam. What a waste of time. Idiots. No other emails or phone calls for the rest of the day, but I suppose there’s still time. So...

permalink written by  chrischarly on March 13, 2012 from Kai Iwi Lakes, New Zealand
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly Down Under

Anyone want to buy our van???

We figured that in order to be able to sell our car before flying out to Fiji that it would be best to get a WOF done which is a New Zealand version of an M.O.T. We were taking some risks by getting this done as it doesn’t run out for another month and the chances are that there are quite a few...

permalink written by  chrischarly on March 12, 2012 from Huia, New Zealand
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Batt Flattery

Woke up, packed up and got into the car… Click Click… nothing… Flat battery. Great. This isn’t the first time either, over the past week we’ve had to suck up to 3 other campers to help us jump-start the car. So first stop today will be to buy a new car battery. Not ideal to spend money on a...

permalink written by  chrischarly on March 11, 2012 from Coromandel, New Zealand
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Hot Water Beach

We went to Hot Water beach today, which as the name suggests a lovely beach where there are hot freshwater springs under the beach. This brings literaly 100’s of people at low tide with spades in hand to dig their own hot pools. We chose to observe from a distance thus avoiding the...

permalink written by  chrischarly on March 10, 2012 from Hot Water Beach, New Zealand
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Another successful day's fishing!

We had a flat battery this morning so Chris had to go and find a friendly camper with jump leads. After getting going we went to Pauanui , Chris bought some sea fishing tackle and we went for a fish off the beach and then the pier. He had just bought a spinner and some hooks, thinking of...

permalink written by  chrischarly on March 9, 2012 from Pauanui, New Zealand
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly Down Under

Quick sand

Nothing much to say today, we moved to another nice DoC site, went for a "ing" after a nice long walk through the countryside and Chris nearly got swallowed up into some semi quick sand, then had some feed and off to bed.

permalink written by  chrischarly on March 8, 2012 from Hikuai, New Zealand
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly Down Under

A nice long walk

We awoke to nice weather so decided to go on a nice walk from our Doc site along the River to Karangahawke gorge. Our plan was to see how we felt and if up for it, take a longer harder walk back. The walk was really nice following the River and through some tunnels made during the...

permalink written by  chrischarly on March 7, 2012 from Dickey Flat, New Zealand
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly Down Under

Baby trout

After leaving Ian and Candy’s we headed up towards the Coromandel, finding a Doc site at Dickey Flat. Chris went for a fish, catching two trout but only babies so he returned them. Thankfully Ian was kind and gave us the smoked kahawai that they caught yesterday, which we used half...

permalink written by  chrischarly on March 6, 2012 from Dickey Flat, New Zealand
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly Down Under

Chris' sea fishing expedition

Woke up this morning to hear Chris and Ian’s excited plans to go sea fishing on Ian’s boat! Thinking this sounded like an awesome idea, I was soon informed that unfortunately this was a ‘boys-only’ trip and due to our car only having 2 seats in, I was out numbered and thus left behind to...

permalink written by  chrischarly on March 5, 2012 from Turangi, New Zealand
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