Monkey Island to Curio Bay

I think this was the best freedom camping spot so far. Right in front of the clean beach, peaceful and quiet. There was a public toilet, which we didn’t use, as we had our own. Luckily 😄

While I cleaned up the mess from breakfast Thomas went to the beach with Greta. Greta‘s always the first one to leave the Campervan and Matilda only if we force her to 😂 Since yesterday Greta decided to prefer walking to crawling. For a couple of weeks already she‘s walking bit by bit.

On the way to the Catlins we passed by Invercargill. It‘s fine to pass by 😁 And as Greta was sleeping we kept on moving to the next possible dump station.

A couple of weeks ago we‘ve been to the Northernmost point of the South Island a visit to the Southernmost point was therefore obligatory 😄 And it was there were we met a family again. The first time was at the Golden Bay. Since then we‘re meeting every other day by coincidence. It‘s like, if we‘ve matched our travel itineraries to the hour 😄

The night we spent at Curio Bay Campground, as it‘s just a walking distance to see the fossiled forest and penguins 🐧 (blue penguins and yellow eyed penguins, which are endangered).

The fossiled forest is only accessible during low tide and was pretty impressive and we were even fortunate to see a yellow eyed penguin waddling from the sea to his nest.Read more