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benjamin Sunday, March 8, 2020 |
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Enjoyed the privilege of spending a year living in this campground. Fantastic location next to a protected reef full of fish to snorkel in and the friendly little town of leigh to grab supplies from and bite to eat at a highly recommendable eatery aptly named, Leigh Eats. The campground itself is in it's 3rd generation of family ownership and is well settled in with an atmosphere of appreciation for the land and wilderness it occupies. It's charming, appropriately colorful, community inspiring with its large mess hall furnished with a loaded kitchen, lounging area, pool table, ping pong, board games and books. A large fire pit and barbeques are just outside.The premises is lovingly maintained and looked after by a combination of the family that lives there and any willing travellers looking for free or discounted accommodations. Hope things are going good out there Tim and family! Living there was part of the one of a kind experience I had for my stay in new Zealand. | |||
Jane Smith Tuesday, February 25, 2014 |
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First we were greeted by a lovely lady who showed us our cabin. The kids and I went for a great snorkle then back to camp ground for lovely hot showers. I was able to sit down with a refreshing drink or 2 while the kids played in the fantastic play area for hours. Talk about relaxing. To top it off, the camp fire at night was amazing. I will be back and ill tell my friends too. | |||
Lucia Devoy Sunday, January 12, 2014 |
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Visited many camp sites but this one "takes the cake"! Incredible views, relaxed owners Tim and Fi - so friendly and easy to deal with and extremely helpful - facilities very clean, real family atmosphere and take your pick on any site which has a magical view. Peaceful and genuine campers out for a fun and happy time with/without family. Also took our Golden Retriever - yes, they take dogs with responsible owners - he had a ball! Highly recommended, will definitely be back for some chill time and a real country feel in the air. 10/10 - Hot water fab! Toilets Clean
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Megan J Sunday, August 18, 2013 |
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I have stayed here several times over the last 5 years and has always been an amazing experience. Magical spot, great facilities and love the nightly campfires. | |||
Karen and Glen Dravitzk and family Wednesday, November 16, 2011 |
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WOW!! What a great time we had staying for a weekend earlier this year. We booked 3 cabins and a caravan for our family of 7 Adults and 6 children. We packed all our snorkelling gear but never used it as the water was choppy and weedy without much vision that weekend. It didn't really matter. We had so much food, good wine and beer and marshmallows for the campfire at night. The place was packed with kids but never seemed crowded. I love that there weren't signs all over the place telling you the rules and what not to do. The place was very clean. We have booked 4 cabins again for next year and can't wait to go back. This time we have invited the rest of the family to come. | |||
beatsmilking Thursday, November 3, 2011 |
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WOW is all I can say- How camping used to be, and still should be, The camp ground was very "kiwi" and is located on the hill over looking Goat Island- and all of 5mins walk to the waters edge, What I LOVED was we where told to "pitch the tent where ever we wanted" which was fantastic- no being locked in to a certain little area., The factitlties were basic, but more than fine, it was part of the whole "humbleness", Snorkling equipment availble for hire...and the best thing, at nite a big fire pit is lit for people to sit around, and people just simply mingled, it was truely an amazing place!!!, Posted by Abs on Feb 9th, 2010 at 6:59 pm., Login or register to post comments, user login, Username or e-mail: * |
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Camp News Gatherer Sunday, August 21, 2011 |
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Roadtripsroadtrips.co.nzGoat island
We try to reserve a campsite at Tawharanui, but it's fully booked. Pakari is our plan B. We know the campground and we're sure they'll manage to squeeze us in somewhere, but we want to be a little more adventurous. We want to try somewhere new. Goat Island Camping looks promising from the outset. A tunnel of pines winds up from the entrance and opens out onto a terraced, grassy hillside surrounded by cow-dotted paddocks. Brightly coloured pennants flutter in the breeze. There are views in the dips of the hills that reach all the way to the Hen and Chicken Islands. A central communal kitchen/dining/children's playground area is demarkated by a pirates flag and edged by a wooden fence decorated with an array of snorkelling gear for hire. It's quirky in a hippyish sort of way. By the time we've found the reception and read the hand-painted notice about not letting Cyril the cattle dog follow us down to the beach, we've made up our minds. This is where we're going to stay. There are no allocated, marked-out, numbered sites here. We're free to choose a quiet corner that backs onto the neighbouring farm to pitch our tent. Small trees provide light shade and the view is a delight. Having brushed up on our camping skills during our recent foray into the Kauaeranga Valley, we're happily set-up within half an hour. Goat Island marine reserve is a leisurely ten-minute walk from our tent. Day visitors are having to park almost this far away. It's amazing how busy it gets in the middle of nowhere. And paradoxically, the middle of nowhere is in the middle of everything. Pakari Beach is about 10 kms to the north by road and it's long white, sands stretching up the coast are clearly visible from Goat Island. The Sawmill Cafe and the picturesque village of Leigh are just a couple of kilometres in the opposite direction. A little further afield you find Omaha Beach and Tawharanui Regional Park dominated by the mysterious presence of the Little Barrier Island. Then there's Matakana and the surrounding vineyards if you're into wine, and Sandspit with it's access to Kawau Island if you're keen on history, and still there's more to discover. It's the perfect place to base yourself. |
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Camp News Gatherer Sunday, August 21, 2011 |
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At the Goat Island Campingonsdag 9 februari 2011 Leigh, Nya Zeeland The owners (Fiona and Tim) had told me that Fiona would drive their kids to their school in town in the morning and that I could go with them to get the lost bag. After a well needed good nights rest in a comfortable bed I went up early and left Steph sleeping. As it happened I couldn't go with them, but they said I could go in later at about lunch with Tim who had some business in town. I was happy as long as I didn't have to bike there and back on my partially recuperated but still pretty destroyed legs. I spent the morning walking around the beautiful site, talking to the people staying there and relaxing. Steph got up after a while, we had something to eat and did some more intense relaxing. ![]()
Kvinna, 24 år
Uppdaterad fredag 18 mars 2011 |
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