Commercial camp site at Whatuwhiwhi on the Karikari peninsular

Commercial camp site at Whatuwhiwhi - Karikari peninsular

A commercial camp site at Whatuwhiwhi on the Karikari peninsular - March 1999 The Rawara caretaker Ralph and his wife Sue were a fund of information and we spent a long time talking before we left in the morning - it seems they backpack round a lot of unusual parts of the world and write travel books.

One of the areas he suggested we looked at was the Karikari peninsular so we decided to have a look. There is a DOC camp site at the end but washing etc was getting a bit desperate and there were demands for hot showers so we stayed at a commercial (top 10) camp site at Whatuwhiwhi on the sheltered Doubtless bay side. They had cabins but we decided to use the tent which will be the seventh night in a row. As soon as we set it up the camp cat arrived and as I write this it is asleep on Pauline's lap as she watches the washing dry. We will have a look at the DOC site at Matai tomorrow - it is supposed to have good fishing and snorkeling of the rocks at the ends of the twin bays.