Camp sites

During our time in New Zealand, we stayed in a wide variety of places. There were a couple nights that we stayed in parking lots (literally) that were near a public toilet. Other nights, we stayed in DOC sites, which varied in how private they were. When it was cold or we needed to do laundry or charge batteries, we stayed in holiday parks. These were our least favourite as they were usually parking lots (often grass but not always) with power attachments. Most of them didn't have privacy.

During our trip, a few sites stick in my memory. Our absolute favourite site was on the water but in the Nelson area. We stayed there two nights and were able to have a camp fire (most places didn't allows camp fires! We had gotten German sausages in Nelson and grilled the sausage as we enjoyed the water and just being outside. Some of the photos of this site are amoung my favourites from the trip.

Other sites that we really enjoyed include where we stayed the first night on the North Island. It was in a park reserve parking lot but was private and really pretty. The rest were on the South Island. One was in the Malborough area. It was right on the water and spots were fairly secluded from each other (where these pictures were taken).