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South Island Explore PART3 REEFTON

This was an easy two-hour drive away, so with no other plans for the day we were able to have a relaxing breakfast while the tents dried out in the morning sun before packing up and heading for Reefton.

Like Westport, the Reefton campsite had no specific sites for unpowered tenting, rather we were told to just grab some space round the edge of the field. With some advice on the sun’s movement from the guy mowing the grass, we ended up with a site getting almost all-day sun and with a large tree next to us offering some welcome cool shade – it was much hotter in Reefton

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