Saturday, February 07, 2009
Campervan Relocation Part 3
Blenheim - Picton-Ferry-Wellington-Otaki Beach-Motuoapa-Auckland.
Here are some more pictures from the aviation museum near Blenheim. The planes are generally displayed with very lifelike wax figures and situations. Many of them are originals where only 1 or 2 exist.
We stayed in the Blenheim motorcamp on the North edge of town, set by a river below a road and a rail bridge. At 3am a train makes a big noise!
Some cousins of Julie's duck appeared for some bread scraps.
We explored Picton and caught the 2pm Bluebridge ferry to Wellington, heading out into the first traffic we had seen for a while. There is not a single road sign showing directions when you leave the ferry.
A night at Otaki Beach and then North for a night with Dave & Ruth at Motuoapa, then home.
Caught this train with 3 electric engines crossing the Mangaweka viaduct.
For the 5 day trip:
The campervan cost $50.88 when we booked (5 days at $5 a day plus something I forget), then $60.33 of road user charges for the 1260km we did. We used 121.74 litres of diesel for 1260 km, so 10.35 km/l, or 9.66 l per 100km, or 29 mpg. The diesel cost $124.27 and lpg $9.00. Camping grounds totalled $94. The rest was supermarket bills that we would have paid anyway. And the flight down was on air miles.
Some very clever features were fitted to this van. Shower/toilet cubicle, gas fired hot water. The table was used to fill the gap between seats and make a double bed. 2 burner lpg cooker & rangehood. 12V fridge. You could plug into mains power at the camp site and that would give you use of a microwave, toaster and heater, two power points, and also charge the lighting battery.
Here are some more pictures from the aviation museum near Blenheim. The planes are generally displayed with very lifelike wax figures and situations. Many of them are originals where only 1 or 2 exist.
We stayed in the Blenheim motorcamp on the North edge of town, set by a river below a road and a rail bridge. At 3am a train makes a big noise!
Some cousins of Julie's duck appeared for some bread scraps.
We explored Picton and caught the 2pm Bluebridge ferry to Wellington, heading out into the first traffic we had seen for a while. There is not a single road sign showing directions when you leave the ferry.
A night at Otaki Beach and then North for a night with Dave & Ruth at Motuoapa, then home.
Caught this train with 3 electric engines crossing the Mangaweka viaduct.
For the 5 day trip:
The campervan cost $50.88 when we booked (5 days at $5 a day plus something I forget), then $60.33 of road user charges for the 1260km we did. We used 121.74 litres of diesel for 1260 km, so 10.35 km/l, or 9.66 l per 100km, or 29 mpg. The diesel cost $124.27 and lpg $9.00. Camping grounds totalled $94. The rest was supermarket bills that we would have paid anyway. And the flight down was on air miles.
Some very clever features were fitted to this van. Shower/toilet cubicle, gas fired hot water. The table was used to fill the gap between seats and make a double bed. 2 burner lpg cooker & rangehood. 12V fridge. You could plug into mains power at the camp site and that would give you use of a microwave, toaster and heater, two power points, and also charge the lighting battery.
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