Whangarei to invercargill

[ijobasai]

Hey guys i'm planning on going to invers to study i will most probs leave on the 12th head to wellington in one day and then the ret of the south island over a couple of days if anyone is keen on a convoy or cruise..

[MR2BOY23]

LOL WUT

[eskimo]

[ijobasai]

lmao not all the way down but if any of ya were keen to cruise seen as i dont know the south island, would be pretty awesome to meet some toyspeed members along the way.

[shihad]

hmmm could be tempted i need to find a way from wellington to dunedin from the 11th.can i hitch a ride? pay gas obviously

[fuel]

good luck doing it in just a couple days. I flew into Queenstown then went down to Invercargill and Bluff, then came up the east coast through Balclutha, Dunedin, Timaru, Chch, Kaikoura and ended up in Nelson, then got on the ferry at Picton and made it back up to Hamilton. I did the trip in 6 days and even then I was on the road for about 6 hours every day and the trip just felt very rushed.

[ijobasai]

Wish i had more money and time to do the trip! xD otherwise i would take my time but i inda have to rush to get there before my corse starts and find a place to stay... and i'll see about that ride i think my cuzzie might want a ride to Chch if not then yeah sure.

[S T E A L T H]

if you're doing it over 3 days you will not have time or inclination to do any socialising along the way I thought I could do Auckland - Queenstown in a day and a half once, ended up stopping at a motel at Geraldine at the end of the 2nd day as I was pretty f%#ed Before that didn't stop anywhere at all apart from a sleep at a motel in welly and 2 x 5 minute fuel/pie/coke/piss stops

if you wanna explore/meet people along the way i think you need about a week

[fangsport]

ya wuusses!!!

flew Timaru-welly-hams (left Timaru 7am), back in Timaru 2pm next day in a truck. caught up with big bro in Welly and had time to do a deal with Warwrick.

[Lloyd]

lol, slackers. I've done the Dunedin -> Whangarei trip a few times, back too. Do it in one go if you really want to. Just gotta time when your ferry crossings are to pick the right times to be driving

[ijobasai]

the good old saying "she'll be right" just needa time my ferry crossings and it'll be all good hehe i'll just be buying alot of redbull and leaving at 7 in the morning.

[shihad]

iv done picton to dunedin in one go plenty of times.just hit first ferry.

[loudstealthGT-Four]

I done from picton to dunners when i bought my gt-four. Didn't get off the ferry till 3pm so was a long drive at night, was nacked afterwards, but was an awesome drive because i was driving a GT-Four

[fangsport]

in the OP's case, i would get one the graveyard sailing and have the whole day to get down the coast.

[Mr Revhead]

Did a coupla well-dunners trips in one go for rally otago.
It sucks!
I would only ever do it if it was a matter of life and death!



Oh and:

ended up stopping at a motel at Geraldine

You must have been exceedingly desperate and lost!

[d1 mule]

what?? it could EASILY be done in a couple of days.

i have driven from rotorua to chch in like 1and a half days easily,

would have done it on 1 but the flight up to rotorua got diverted to auckland so missed my original ferry crossing

[S T E A L T H]

SH1 the whole way is do-able, (albeit a boring drive)

However if you were planning to go thru otago (lindis pass, pigroot etc) this time of year IMO you wanna be fairly awake/alert especially if you're going thru there after sundown. A momentary lapse in concentration, patch of frost and things can get unexpectedly hairy Its an epic drive but just not worth the risk if youre dead on your feet

Geraldine is a lot nicer then Invercargill!

[rolla_fxgt]

I'd say its an easy 2 day trip. Done Dunedin to Nelson a couple of times in 1 day, and partied hard at night when I've gotten there too. Just have to leave early, say no later than 7.

We're doing Dunedin to Tauranga in 2 days at the end of the year when we're moving up there. to Whangarei can't be that much longer, as long as you don't strike bad Auckland traffic

[shihad]

in the OP's case, i would get one the graveyard sailing and have the whole day to get down the coast.

the graveyard ferry is such a bad idea lol.I tried it in febuary people rush to find the best bit of floor because the seats are too crap to sleep in. spend the extra $25 bucks and get the morning ferry and sleep in a bed instead of a floor.

.....now I wait for fangsport to tell me to harden up

[Mr Revhead]

HARDEN UP!!!

Or just get yaself a bed!
Just makesure to leave your boots outside the door!