Our campervan

I thought I would just tell you about our transport and home for the first 26 days of this trip. We hired a Basejumper 2 campervan from Wilderness Motorhomes. We have not hired from them before but had seen one of these vans on our last trip. The saying " you get what you pay for" is really true in this case. Previously we have much older vans which were much harder and heavier to drive than this. Driving it is easy, there is plenty of power for the hills and the steering is light.
This van is very well designed and good quality knives, pans, crockery, cutlery and glassware is provided. The bed, as you can see from the photos is formed using the thick cushions, I think twice as thick as previous vans we have rented. The fridge is 90l capacity which means that we have been able to stock up for a few days at a time and it has a small freezer compartment so I can have ice in my G&T!! The hob has four rings and a very good grill. Two gas bottles are provided so there is no problem if you run out of gas whilst preparing dinner in the back of beyond - as happened last night! There is a very large storage space at the back, under the seating, plenty of room for bags, boots and the rubbish!
The house batteries seem very efficient and the hot water system is excellent . The shower is surprisingly powerful. I brought a kitchen knife, but didn't need to! It's a good idea to bring some ice cube making bags and bring some plastic storage boxes, but you can buy some cheap ones here in the supermarket . Needless to say bedding, towels and tea towels are provided.
One of the really great things is that the back doors open right back against the van, held in place by magnets, so you can sit inside to eat if and still enjoy the fresh air.
The van is completely self contained so you can overnight anywhere where it is permitted, so far we have done this only once but we have used lots of basic DOC sites which are usually located in beautiful surrounding as you have seen from my previous blogs .
Suffice to say we are happy Wilderness campers!!