First Out of Town Trip

Having had its first 1000km service and taking almost 6 weeks to get to 1141km total distance travelled, we went to the Coromandel for three days and covered over 800km in just three days.  Although we did not take the car seriously off road, we have started to nose into the rougher parts of the public road network, so that meant a lot of gravel road driving, nothing too tricky or challenging, but fun all the same.

Our first run was from Tapu to Coroglen, one of the three roads that crosses the penninsular, the other one we want to do is further north and is known simply as the "309"  The reason for purchasing the car is to allow us to nose deeper into the parts of New Zealand that it is not often easy to access, except on foot.

Once out there we want to photograph birds, take timelapse photography clips and anything else that takes our fancy.  So in the spirit of our intended purpose, here is some footage and photos from the weekend, that getting to the back blocks allowed us to take.

The car performed really well and was a really comfortable easy experience.

You can see the photos of the birds that I photographed on my Flickr photostream.




coromandel vimeo from David Kinane on Vimeo.