You are all looking so well and rested...watching your channel is always a highlight 😊

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

Yip we've definitely got into a habit of sleeping till we wake up, no alarm clock required... there are do many great places to highlight glad your enjoying watching.

Awesome videos love watching you and your family getting out their

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, it's pretty awesome to be able to do this with our kids... Loving the slow paced life and adventuring.

Looks like an awesome time gathering food, meeting some cool people in good weather! Great wee segment there Sophie and it's great your surgery appears to have gone well.

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

Yip Sophs stoked with her knee, I was do happy getting those muscles... meat is getting pretty expensive so nice to get some free food. See yas on Friday

Cool video, it's geo engineered weather that blanket...

@leopardsgowild

7 ай бұрын

I am confused????

Aaaahhh, my old stomping ground. Grew up in Blenheim and spent many a time at Whites Bay, Robinhood Bay etc. Funnily enough, we also called it "Cave Rock" when we were kids. Always visited Whites Bay when my kids were young on our family trips back to NZ. Still looks great...

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

Oh that's so cool 😎 definitely really enjoyed our time at this spot. Lots to see and do and good facilities...

Was great meeting you and your family in person, next time hopefully more paua for you all 🤗 until we meet again have a great trip around the South Island.

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

Cheers team, such a cool spot ya got there. Got some great videos coming out, South island is stunning

Great video. We will have to explore the area. Marcel sees those logging trucks and reckons he would take Beast there. Hmmmm I might walk. Didn’t realise Sophie’s knee brace was magic…. 🙃

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

The roads pretty hard you could probably get in with nearly anything no drop offs though Sarah so you'll be aright. Some other nice beaches if you continue on down the road as well.

Started talking to the couple in the caravan next to us at Kaiteriteri and its Kim and Floyd who you met in this video. Small world.

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

So enjoyed talking with them, you can tell Floyd I did have problems with my brakes and now I have gotten it sorted it's been night and day the difference.

Great video Mike, it was awesome getting over the hill from home to meet you guys and hang out in our big back yard. Today I was back out there, doing a crayfish dive over the far side of Port Underwood, near where that power cable heads across to the North Island. Hopefully we will see you back in Marlborough later in the year.

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

Cheers making great memories meeting great people in beautiful places. How did ya go with getting crayfish?

@garth2876

Жыл бұрын

@@leopardsgowild caught a few but had to work hard for them

great episode mike!! so awesome how jade always has her board & what an epic job by riley on the camera work on top of the rock!!!! you guys r absolutely killing it!!!!!! the fact u get to walk around without a shirt makes me so jealsous theres like another 3ft of snow this past wkend lol ugh!!! epic burger lololol and omg robinhood bay ru kidding me!??!?!?!?!?!!?!? that the most epic spot ever its literally at the end of the world or the beginning! epic hike w soph and its great everyone says hello when they see u!!! thanks for another great episode mike see yah !

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

Oh cheers mate... we are starting to meet or bump into people who follow the channel, always cool to meet them. It's been a terrible summer in New Zealand lots of severe flooding, down South has been ok though we have appreciated getting out in the sun... last month of winter mate, that snow will be gone soon

Had to sympathise with those truck drivers, not a good road for those trucks. Ive never seen plankton like that before, so cool!!

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

It was a very rough road, not the road you want yo take a large caravan on and meet a loggingvtruck anyway.... I might be wrong about this water creatures they might be called selps or something like that...

Mate, there's paua just off where u were fishing. Many more awesome places like that. You guys make my feet itchy again.

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

Hey mate, yea there were Paua in with the mussells as well, I think they were all undersized... My dive trip with Garth was the first time I have ever dived for Paua, so it was all a bit new to me... I kept checking out the spot where I got those mussells and found a few big cracks loaded with Paua at Whites Bay.

@tym2movon

Жыл бұрын

U can get a free paua knife off fisheries inspectors. They even have utube videos on how to gather them.

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

@@tym2movon Thats good to know, I thought they were pretty cool and easy to use.

AGAIN ! Beautiful places-- you all are truly blessed. Is the logging "sustainable " ?

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

Hey Tom magic area aye... yes the logging is all productive forest, the turn around from harvest to replanting is very fast. You can not log our native timber, this is all pine.

Great start to south side adventures ☺️ fingers crossed the weather stays beautiful for all of you for your entire trip 🙏🏼☀️

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

We are off to a cracking start mate, dolphins, seals sunshine natural beauty... can't ask for much more

Those mussels look mean az much better than going to Pac n save mean Whanau

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

Oh yea bro way better than the shops alright, lots of food around. Fishing not to flash though.

Agree, great DOC campsite. How was it driving up that hill with such a big caravan? We hope to do the same as you by year's end, so watching to see how you all get on. Hopefully, the weather is kind to you down south.

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

Hey there, it was fine going up the big hill, this is the only sand beach in Blenheim so lots of locals come out for the day so it can get busy. Better to travel with the traffic instead of against it, so if you go out in the afternoon, all the traffic will be heading out , and back into town... We arrived quite late cause we just got off the ferry. Towing to whites beach is all tarseal. Exciting Full time travel is really fun.

That looks amazing there, putting that on our to-visit list for later in the year. We've driven that road a couple of times, I couldn't imagine towing a big caravan along it. Nice to see Sophie and the kids doing some vlogging. Thanks for sharing.

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

Thanks guys pretty awesome place to explore, we loved it there 😀 lots of walking, all big hills though, and plenty of beaches to explore

Beautiful drone shots throughout and loving the music choices! We didn't realize how mountainous the North side of the South island was. Can't wait to see what Adventure you guys take us on next! Safe Travels.

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

Thanks guys, yup the mountains seem so dramatic being so close to the ocean. We have some amazing content coming up in the next 2 videos

North Island weather. Oh yeah! Hope you're getting better weather than we have been getting. Gorgeous part of the country. Shame about that gorgeous beach with the power pylons marching across and the logging slash in the background. Pleasant travels.

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

ha ha, yea those pylons were an eyesore for such a beautiful place... They weren't in the spot we were camping atleast... We've had some pretty awesome weather down here.

Adding to South Island to visit list.

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

This is a great spot, theres lots of walks to do which is really nice, even over to Rarangi beach which is on the blenheim side.

Is this what Plankton looks like? For some reason I was thinking they were little fish.

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

Yip that's plankton very weird feeling them in the water, we showed you the big ones but heaps of broken small pieces in the water all around us.

Hi Mike, are you using your gears when going downhill? Just asking because we have never had the brake heating issues you are having. Whites Bay is not a big hill compared to what's coming, or may already have arrived for you by now😁

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

Hey mate thanks for reaching out... we definitely have a brave imbalance on the caravan one brake on each side was hot the other just warm. We have a manual truck and actually were in 1st gear to use the engine for braking, so was surprised I could still smell the brakes when we arrived, was only going 25km an hr smell not to bad though... yes there are some big climbs to come which is fine its the decents I worry about... also we were fully loaded going down

@richardsimpson1836

Жыл бұрын

@@leopardsgowild we also have a NextGen van (Tekapo). I was towing it with a Ranger. I reckon these dual cab utes are not cut out for towing such a heavily van - even though many kiwis do. that they are 'rated' to 3.5ton is crazy. We had a couple too many times the tail was wagging the dog. since got a bigger towing vehicle - totally different experience.

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

@@richardsimpson1836 the towing of the van is sweet, plenty of power on the ups, the downs are the issue... talking to other ppl they tell me some of the big downs aren't a problem gor the caravan our brakes aren't working evenly on the caravan apparently it's s pretty simple adjustment by the mechanic...watch this space

@richardsimpson1836

Жыл бұрын

@@leopardsgowild Call me conservative :-). But I reckon towing a pig trailer that is heavier than the towing vehicle is a risky business in general.

@leopardsgowild

Жыл бұрын

@@richardsimpson1836 yea I hear ya mate, lots of caution required it's not like towing a garden trailer with camping gear that's for sure... if seen a fee people on other groups talking about the wobbles and sway issues due to imbalanced weights... seems there's always something to be resolved with big rigs aye..