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clover 
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 Posted: 16 September 2010 at 9:52am |
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I wanted to go camping over Christmas but I guess camping at 8.5 months is probably out of the question?
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Daizy
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Posted: 16 September 2010 at 12:37pm |
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I miss going away for holidays and going camping. Before having kids we would always have at least 2 weeks away somewhere. Favourite places have been Sandspit (near Warkworth), Ohiwa, Pahia (all up north)
We recently did a trip down south and would one day love to explore there more. I would also love to go up the Coromandel some time... I think we will just wait until the girls are bigger and it is easier to travel far with them.
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Posted: 16 September 2010 at 2:52pm |
I have mixed feelings about taking babies camping, as I've had the unfortunate experience of staying in a crowded campground with someone elses crying baby.
It kept the whole camp awake for several nights. Not a way to win friends.
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Posted: 16 September 2010 at 4:42pm |
clover camping with babies is good fun  we go camping pretty every weekend from labour weekend until xmas, then from the end of January until easter. End of December to end of January the campgrounds are manic up here, but when we go we are quite often the only ones in the grounds!!!
Tauranga Bay (up north) is gorgeous, one of our favourites. Matai Bay we also love, but we only go there when the weather is really warm as it i a DoC ground so there is no hot water
If anyone is heading up these ways over summer, let me know! I would love to meet you, and play tour guide!!! 
Our favourite holidays are spent sailing in the Bay of Islands. We are very VERY lucky to live in such a stunning part of the world!!
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KrazeeKaz
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Posted: 16 September 2010 at 5:12pm |
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I love Whangamata also, used to go there quite alot until family moved to AKL.
nicandtyler/sandie - do you remember Pinkies Restaurant? My mums aunty used to own it.
The other place I love to go to is Whangapoa, it is a bit further up the Coromandel, wonderful little town, very quiet with a beautiful beach.
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Posted: 16 September 2010 at 6:23pm |
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Kaz...I miss Pinkies! still call it Pinkies now, cant actually remember what it is called...
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Posted: 16 September 2010 at 6:25pm |
 clover wrote:
I wanted to go camping over Christmas but I guess camping at 8.5 months is probably out of the question? |
I was 8 months when we went, was only for 2 nights lol but wasn't too bad!
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KrazeeKaz
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Posted: 17 September 2010 at 6:22am |
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sandie - it is now called Surf n Sounds, and it is nothing like it used to be.
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Posted: 17 September 2010 at 8:21am |
haha kaz yes i rememeber pinkies, me and my sisters would make our parents take us there all the time for the chicken nuggets and pink panther drinks  yea its blue now! 
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Posted: 17 September 2010 at 9:48am |
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I used to love going there to see our family till they sold it and moved on, Whangamata is not the same anymore but still an awesome place to go and stay
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Posted: 17 September 2010 at 12:49pm |
Reading this thread is making me sooo hang out for summer!! I was born and grew up in the states but was always camping holidays for us every summer and have the best memories
I can't wait to take DD camping this summer! She will be a year old and I'm sure she will love it.
We did go for a couple night when she was 2 weeks old last summer but I think the experience sort of went over her head 
My fave spot are up north, where I grew up after coming to NZ... Kerikeri, the Bay of Islands and the beaches further north, Matai Bay, Coopers Beach, so beautiful!
Like some others suggested if you don't have camping gear, no problem... go to a campground or holiday park and rent a tourist cabin or caravan!
They are pretty cheap and the facilities, cooking and showers, toilets etc make going with babies much easier A good option if you can only get away for a night or 2 also, packing up a car of gear is a pain for short trips....
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Posted: 17 September 2010 at 1:02pm |
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Kawau island!!! No cars either so have to get places by boat or foot
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Posted: 17 September 2010 at 1:45pm |
Waipu Cove! practically lived at the beach there over summer (grew up in waipu and my grandparents have a place overlooking the beach). nice camp ground, awesome beach!! favourite place to go and only a half hour drive from where i live hehe so not really a holiday spot for me but i love it there.
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Posted: 17 September 2010 at 3:50pm |
Nice to read that so many people go to Whangamata! So many wonderful memories for me and my family and now we are creating those memories for DD at Whanga, although there not quite like what I had where I could catch 100 sprats a day down on the wharf. Nowadays you barely catch any!
Personally though I LOVE camping and took DD at just 8 weeks old. She was an absolute star the whole 3 weeks we camped and its actually where she began to sleep through from 9pm till 5am every single night. Must have been all that fresh sea air
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