Winter camping is not that bad... Full time travel - Lake Wardell
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2024
- Hey team, off grid camping in the Hoar frost at Free camp Lake Wardell.
She's crispy cold and icy out there which we much more prefer than a damp and dull spot... So pretty out there.
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You're right about the next vlog, a good soul food for me to cure my Monday blues.
You are a bit of a chef, curry night and the sweet/spicy pork the next 😎. Thanks a bunch for making my Monday a whole lot better😆. It was tough but glad is it behind me
Mondayitis is a real thing. The damp, muddy camping sucks, I literally just hang out in the caravan when its like that. So much more enjoyable in the cold, even just frost and frozen puddles is fun, you'll see a lot of that in the next vlog. Oh and I do like to cook, Its very theraputic, especially with a bottle of wine.
Just spectacular scenery. Toby loved your snowman. Dinner looked very yummy and just what’s needed in the cold. Thanks for sharing. Travel safe 🤩🤗🤩
Yip yum warm comfort food... Toby loves playing with the ice, we still need to be able to get into some snow, we thought we were guarnteed snow in the last storm, but it seemed to skip over the top of us, we didn't get any rain either.
Keep the videos coming🇳🇿👏🍻
Cheers mate, they will be coming alright...
Brilliant experience. Those wee generators are awesome for keeping the battery topped up.
they are pretty awesome, I don't reckon I'd get 800w of power though, The eco flow lets me know how much charge things take to power, I reckon I'll get about 550w of constant output from the generator. It means the Ecoflow can trickle up at about 250w, the battery charger can charge at around 200w, and then we can charge up a couple of the kids laptops.
Your meals look great... do you do all the cooking Mike? Lucky you Sophie. That scenery is next level, stunning.
Mmmm Yum food is essential to happy people in this caravan. Soph makes some epic Mexican, I enjoy cooking, so Soph fills in when I can't be bothered, she also does all the Laundry, which I hate. Nature is pretty incredible.
Great vid guys - love the hoar frost - looks like a winter wonderland. love the drone shots.
We think it's so much better than a slightly cold north island winter which we are used to any way, it's pretty exciting when things are frozen.
Love your videos
.awesome family times.
Hey there, thanks, yes some very awesome times for sure.
You guys are very brave. We live in Central Otago and we do the oppisite this time of year( we go looking for the sun). Toby must have anti freeze in his blood😅. Great video!
ha ha, hes happiest outside playing and adventuring, although he probably prefers the mud then the ice... this is pretty novel for us, full time living in it, might be a different story.
Great to see the generator's working out well, great idea to charge up the ecoflow at the same time for use later, I'm guessing your caravan batteries will be much happier too.
Yea everything is staying nice and charged which is really nice, and makes power a lot less stressful, plus it means I can get my editing down in the evening when everyones in bed.
How do you find the ecoflo, no issues? Plenty of capacity? Good on you for getting a generator, it certainly lifts the spirits when you have plenty power, one less thing to be concerned about.
I came across this channel after bumping into your video about the NZMCA show in Hamilton last year. Your travel videos are so cool to watch and listen. You have a great taste for music too. Keep it up. Have you thought about writing an article to Stuff or NZ Herald about your travels? And may be put some stickers on your caravan with your channel name if you are keen to get more subscribers as you travel along.
Hey there, glad you found us. We really enjoy this lifestyle and travelling is so fun. We did have an article about us on stuff a few months back, probably searchable on google. We really need to sort out a Logo, my creative mind only goes so far...
Hoar frost is amazing. Thanks for taking us along.
Yea I think that could be our last Hoar frost, we'll be looking for some more work in the next 2 weeks for at least a month I'd say to try and top up the bank to get us through the next summer, $$$$ are definitely going out of the bank pretty fast these days.
@@leopardsgowild Good luck with job hunting.
A long long time ago, we lived in Twizel, with ex hubby helping build the dam etc, and I HATED hoar frosts. LOL With 2 kids under 3, no drier, and certainly no disposable nappies in those days, life was better in summer. I notice not much build up on the power lines in your videos, I remember power cuts during a hoar frost due to the icicles breaking power lines.
Yes in this video we arrived on the last day of a shorter hoar frost, we were up here the week earlier in a bigger one where the powerlines were well covered, but not enough to cause damage. The hoar frost is stunning to witness as a traveller I imagine it would be difficult to live in during the winter, always harder when it's your every day to the person passing by. where are you now?
Wow..!! Still getting those beautiful frosts. I will definitely be back next winter.
I was having a look at your van roof and looks like there’s plenty of room for a couple of 415W panel’s running across the van if you moved the 3 smaller ones up to the front. Have fun guys..! 💪
Yea plenty of room for more solar, I think we are doing pretty sweet with power now, the generator going for an hour or 2 makes all the difference, also flicking off the power in our caravan means we've stayed pretty full now, the heater bypasses the power supply and goes straight to the batteries. in another month or so, that sun will be staying in the sky a bit longer.
Have to say, I love the extreme cold and the look it gives to the scenery. Didnt take long for it to melt away and disappear though
Yea it's pretty special alright. It's a lot of fun. Melts so fast... hope ya'll are having a good summer
That's a nice little generator that'll work really well. What did you pay for that?
We like the music you use. Where do you seem to find it?
Hey team, music is a copyrighted subscription from an outfit called Musicbed, anyone can jump on there and have a look. Generator was just $350 on trademe, brand new. 800w pure sinewave
Oh, i hope its like that when we go through next month! 🤞
IT's pretty awesome. I'd love to go back into it again... I think The lindis pass can have some pretty awesome spots and it can even be sunny and clear, but still hoar frost cause of the elevation makes it so much colder.
Beautiful landscape! Your caravan will be a lot warmer than my 'typical Kiwi-build' house in Kāpiti 🥶 I'm off again in the electric camper in a couple of weeks; have about a month heading down to Dunedin for work and The All Blacks game there, via Methven if there's any snow on the slopes there, or Akaroa if not. Then off to Wanaka before heading back north; might bump into you if we can sync locations? Hoping to do some cycling while I'm down there too. Just having a mild panic as I've just about finished making my van self-contained after a pile of time and effort, and I've just gone to book the inspection and it looks like the law has changed and I can't get a certificate without a permanent loo!! Gutted, just trying to see if I can find a way around it. Enjoy the thaw and the sunshine!
Thanks, we will likely be in Christchurch soon, I'll be looking for a bit of work because we don't want to work in summer at all if we can help it, much nicer to work in the winter, although we are still awaiting a snow storm, which completely jumped over canterbury apparently, we got nothing up at the Ashburton lakes, east or west of us... Yes permanant loo is going to catch a lot of people out I think? Is there a way to plumb one in? or is the van a little bit small for that.
@@leopardsgowild Re space to plumb a loo, my van is smaller than your car, so that's a No! 😆
Oh thats not as easy then.. Good luck with a solution. I'm sure someone will come up woith something.
Im surprised that there is no snow . This must be proof that the climate is changing. Toby looks like he still finds something to do in any situation.
I love the scenery though.
Yea I think this area often misses the snow, it seems to pull the snow into other directions and go around... But it does not miss the fog... Toby is a very busy boy for sure.
Ah - generator. That answers that question then. Very well, do carry on then!
Yip, couldn't do it without it now...
Wow 😍❤️
Pretty awesome aye, New Zealand is so unique, what a great country.
A nice camping spot at Lake Wardell and it’s free, very busy in the summer
yea everyones trying to catch a salmon, way better in the hoar frost, pretty boring in the damp wet.
@@leopardsgowild we use it as a base to explore the area
That did thaw out fast, glad the power issue is now solved. Back on the road again, looking forward to seeing your next adventure
Yea nice and cheap and solves the problem which is really good.
Good update on the power/battery situation and how you're now managing it. Does the gas cooker work ok in the low temperatures? Great footage. Safe travels.
Hey mate, we've not had any issues with our gas freezing up, maybe cause the fridge is running off grid so it keeps circulating... Our fridge has been come up with an error recently though, which is due to no Gas, even though the bottle is full... It happens in the day time so it can't be the cold. We are glad the batteries seem happy now, nice not having power stress.
Amazing experiences that the kids will never forget. Love all the hoar frost...we had a lot of that when I was living in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. So pretty indeed. Keep up the great adventuring! Bruce and Otis
Oh Canada would be a dream location to spend a winter, I love everything about the winter, maybe not permanatly, but the early setting sun, the ice, it's pretty magic, where our home is in the North Island, frosts are common, but nothing like this.
@@leopardsgowild I lived in both Alberta and Saskatchewan and it wasn't uncommon to experience -40c for a few days in a row...nothing much moves at those temperatures for sure.
Sorry. I hitthe thumb down button by mistake. Please don't take it personally! You certainly had a winter wonderland for a day or two. Toby certainly appreciated it. I've been wondering how you've been getting on with the mire extreme winter weather they've been having down there. I have used a Hobda generator which was very quiet. It was pretty pricey from memory.
Hey Owen, no worries. I can't see who pushes like or dislike on a video any way so no stress at all. the colder the weather the better really, it's fun seeing frozen ponds, and walking thru frozen ground, seems most things are well defrosted now, and there isn't really much snow around where we've been, we've been hanging out for it though, theres not even much snow on the mountains, maybe around queenstown there is more...
We have solar panels for our trailer works great even in lower light days. Two one hundred watt panels on the roof of the trailer.
Yea we get some charge even without any sunshine, but How does the charge go for you in the winter with not much sun?
@@leopardsgowild We are in Baja Mexico for 4 months of the winter. Lots of sun there! Love on Vancouver island BC Canada.
Oh wow, have an awesome time travelling through Mexico team.
@@leopardsgowild we stay in La Ventana (south east of La Paz , Baja, Mexico), which is good for wind sports hiking, biking and snorkeling on calm days.
I spent a lot of time as a kid at that lake, summer and winter.
Bought a geni the same as that. 1.5 tanks of fuel and it imploded 🙄🙄🙄
Is that lake swimable? Looks very shallow and weddy, not that we tested it... Thats weird your generator imploded, we've gone through about 20litres of petrol now, no worries.
@@leopardsgowild after school that lake was packed!
Thats awesome mate, always good to have some great swimming holes around the place. The waters around this place must have been pretty fresh though ..
@Leopardsgowild Hi guys! Out of curiosity, what kind of batteries do you have?
Hey mate we just got 2x 100 Amp hour agm batteries awesome for summer definitely need some charging help in the winter
@@leopardsgowild Awesome. Thanks.. we're picking up our Tutukaka on Tuesday!
That is very exciting team, I hope your handover went well today, are you off on an adventure, or straight back home?
@@leopardsgowild loving our van, but now considering an anti sway option. Do you have one on your van?