Caravan Holidays

My memories of caravan holidays include glass milk bottles of grapefruit juice from the mobile 'milk man', a large box of 'Sampler Biscuits', hungrily tucking into ham sandwiches after a morning in the surf and burning up in my sleeping bag after a little too much sun! Buckets and spades, polystyrene flutter boards and nylon quilted dressing gowns and 'sponge bags' to go dashing off to the camping ground ablution block for a shower! eeeekk!
This photo is taken at Maketu Beach where a few of our caravan holidays were had back in the days! Others were had at a Bach at Pukehina Beach. I got chatting to a lovely old Maori chap at the dairy the other day and he said he was off to Pukehina and did I know where that was... well yes I did! I think he was a little surprised and delighted!

I think it is our own good memories of summer, beach, camping/caravaning type holidays that motivate us to want some similar sort of experience for our own children. We used to take our children to Fletcher's Bay, right at the tip of the Coromandal Peninsula for many a beach holiday. We didn't 'camp' as such but stayed in the Woolshed which was very adequately decked out - just a step up from camping which meant Mum (being moi) had a holiday too. A few home comforts don't go amiss when you are an hour from the nearest store at Colville! I loved the isolation - it was like the beautiful, rugged Pohutukawa clad coastline magically transported you to this 'other world'. A world of sun, surf, sand and fresh fish - rest, relaxation and family recreation - all tucked in safe & snug by these HUGE hills up behind us! Early tomorrow morning me and my darling man are heading up there for a couple of nights. I am looking forward to some 'sea bathing' and we hope to catch some fish!

There's a new New Zealand book out called 'Let's Go Camping' by Sarah Bennett & Lee Slater VIEW Sarah and her husband Lee took a 20,000 km road trip around NZ to research this project which is a guidebook to some of the best campgrounds in the country.

The Taupo Museum has a very cute display called KIWIANA CARAVAN which is really worth a look if you are ever in Taupo.
C U T E as a button!