Camping at McCreadies Paddock

Over ANZAC weekend Martin and I had four nights at McCreadies Paddock campground, near Karekare in the Waitakere ranges.  With my health at the moment AND the trains not running that weekend AND some campgrounds being fully booked for part of the time we wanted, we ended up choosing a place we hadn't been to before and having a friend drop us there and back by car.

It turned out to be a really lovely spot.  It was two areas of flat ground surrounded by trees and a creek.  One of the flat areas had a small cooking shelter and some toilets at the edge, and there was a carpark with space for maybe 6-ish cars.

I'm not very well...

In July of last year I had a cluster of 'real' migraines.  For some years I've had clusters of auras without other symptoms, but these came with light sensitivity, nausea and headaches as well.  I've only had a handful of those in my life and each time, as with the first of these, I haven't recognised what they were as they happen so rarely.

Over time the headaches stopped, but I developed other visual weirdnesses and the nausea became near-constant - never gone, although sometimes better and sometimes worse.  In recent months I've developed huge fatigue, too.  Issues with swallowing that I had a few years' back have returned, and haven't gone away with a medication increase.