French Pass

We were warned not to try the French Pass road in a motorhome, unless there was no wind at all - many cars and vans have blown off the cliffs along this road. Weather was predicted calm for 3 days, so we were off...

Wonderful views once past Okiwi Bay, the road became narrower and rougher, and a lot dustier, but there was nowhere to get to the water (all private roads to million-dollar baches along the shoreline).

We couldn’t even park at the locality known as French Pass “township”, it was full of cars belonging to absent boaties, and visitors to D’Urville Island, so breakfast up at the lookout - where many local weka brought out their young for a free feed.