Friday 26 September Our second morning at Uretiti and we woke to glorious sunshine. Packed up Banjo and headed to the beach for a last...

Thursday 25 September Yay! Our long awaited sunshine delivery arrived! We took advantage of it with an early walk a km or two down the...

Wednesday 24 September The rain didn’t stop and we had the worst night of sleep because of giant rain torpedoes hitting the roof from the...

Tuesday 23 September Spring showers had turned into tempestuous downpours - not really the weather we came north in search of 🙄 Abby was...

Monday 22 September Spring showers were pretty relentless so it was a low key kinda day. Abby worked in the Moho and Louis, Jez & I...

Sunday 21 September Finally we were the only Snowy on site after the other two weekend Snowy River caravans left early on Sunday morning....

Saturday 20 September With the sun out and our plans to spend the day with Vivienne & Ivan kyboshed by Louis’ rough old lurgy (razor...

Friday 19 September After yesterdays blip on the weather radar, we woke to chilly temperatures but lovely northland sunshine. I popped...

Thursday 18 September The winterless North failed us for a day… sunshine gave way to grey skies, cloud, rain & wind. Sadly Louis was...

Wednesday 17 September Awoke on our expensive campsite to a stunning sunrise over a misty bay - almost worth the extra rate for the stay!...

Tuesday 16 September Up with the lark, or more accurately the oyster catchers, as we had to get Banjo to Vanari for 8am to get her...

Monday 15 September Finally the winds settled down a bit and it was time to hit the road. Checked and double checked everything as we had...

Sunday 14 September After our Midwinter Christmas Spring Fling came a Summer day - Summer the dog, that is. We did a bit of sorting in...

Saturday 13 September Better late than never - Saturday was our long awaited Midwinter Christmas Spring Fling kindly hosted this year by...

Friday 12 September A stormy Friday on the Shore gave us time to tidy up Banjo a bit, prep all our contributions to tomorrow’s Midwinter...

Thursday 11 September After spending an hour or so trying to get the Banjo’s Odyssey blog a bit more up to date, I decided to feed my...

Wednesday 10 September Delayed Father’s Day for us - started with a Dilligas snuggle then we headed south to have Father’s Day brunch...

Tuesday 9 September It was a ticking the To Do List kinda day - dull & grey out so nothing better to do! Most important first stop was a...

Monday 8 September Too beautiful to stay inside doing blogs and stuff - so we took Summer on her new long lead to Cheltenham Beach and...

Sunday 7 September Father’s Day was largely put on hold as elder daughter is in Christchurch and younger daughter is between shifts....