We have reached a new milestone as a family – we are preparing to embark on our first overnight hike as a whole family. I am very excited about this – we are going to do the Pinnacles Walk and spend the night in the hut. At the time of writing our children are 11,…
This was our first full summer holiday living on Waiheke Island and the first few weeks were filled with visitors. It was wonderful to see so many friends and family but it was also quite exhausting for us all. I realised that we hadn’t built in any real downtime for the family and so 4…
We are off camping this Sunday for 5 nights. We haven’t been camping for at least 2 years now … possibly nearly 3 years! We are super excited. We are off to Motutapu Island and will be getting there via a water taxi service from Waiheke Island – much simpler than dealing with ferries. With…
This post was originally published on the 2nd November 2011 on the website Mums on the Go. With Mums on the Go closing down in March 2016 I wanted to ensure this story was preserved. Camping was a really important part of my childhood. My Dad had a great group of friends from Uni who…
This post was originally published on Mums on the Go in 2012. With that site closing down I wanted to still be able to share this information here with you. We have an extra kid now and confess we haven’t been camping for a while. Committed to changing that in 2016 xx Camping has…