Brian
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North Island ▷ Manawatu - Wanganui ▷ Palmerston North ▷
London's Ford Reserve
4.0/5
London's Ford is a beautiful place, well worth the visit, but there are a handful of people to watch out for.
What I'm writing is only my experience. There's a man at the top of the cliff who watches people with a scope, a man in a black jeep who chases people with a drone, a couple of young farm workers on a quad who follow people around and a council worker who likes to intimidate and bully people and fines people for looking rough or being in tents. These men seem to be intent on getting rid of everybody and what happens then is the drug dealers move in. Please don't be intimidated by these men. London's Ford needs the tourists and families to come back and make it safe again.
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North Island ▷ Hawkes Bay ▷ Napier ▷
Dartmoor Bridge Reserve
1.5/5
Dartmoor is a beautiful place but it's wrecked by 1) heavy trucks running very late and very early 2) locals who use the place to smash bottles, dump rubbish, destroy cars, shoot .303's into the trees
, drop condoms and bloody tissues and tip over rubbish bins 4) people screaming up and down the road at such speed one day one of those kids on those racing quads is going to find out what happens when a light-weight high speed object hits a stationary object like a rock or an animal. I love Dartmoor but the locals treat it like a cesspit and the Rangers are apparently quite fond of dishing out trespass notices to people who go up there and pick up rubbish. The first step to making Dartmoor reserve a more attractive place for motorhomes would be installing speedbumps outside the reserve.