- Official Kms: 14km
- Garmin Kms: 15.05km
- Total time: 4.13
- Calories burnt: 1612
- Body battery: 8/10 another good nights sleep, feet are still sore.
- Accommodation: Cabin at Ahipara holiday park.
- Tenting count: still 2
The alarm went off at 6.30am this morning, not bad considering we went to bed at 9pm. Longest sleep yet! It’s raining fairly heavily though so that’s something I’m not looking forward to.
The plan today is to leave at 8.30am & walk into Ahipara for lunch & a coffee.
We started off at 8.45am & headed down to the beach to walk todays last 14km of beach walking. Some of the group opted for the forestry instead. It started with a bit of drizzle & then cleared up.
About 6km into the walk Jon & Caroline popped over the sand dunes from the forestry road & we walked the rest of the way with them.
On our last break lying on the sand Nici & Kévin caught up, joined us & we walked the last stretch to Ahipara together.
We reached the holiday park at just before 1pm & checked into our room. It even has its own toilet & hot shower & we all get a towel each! Pure luxury! It’s amazing how you appreciate the little things on a hike like this. We also bought cold drinks & some chips & sat in the communal kitchen & had lunch.
After organising ourselves, Jon & Caroline took off for another fish & to send some of our unneeded stuff home.
Not long after 3pm Phil, Christian & Tim turned up, they are going to get a taxi into Kaitaia for the next few nights to have some zero days to rest their battered feet & legs & we will catch up with them again tomorrow afternoon.
Jon got back after 5pm from fishing & realised at some point he had snapped the top of his rod when he went to do up his rig. Off to hunting & fishing tomorrow to see if he can get it repaired.
Kevin, Gokul & myself went to get takeaways just before 6pm. It was a 1.2km walk down the road & then another 1.2km walk back. I’m a sucker for punishment!
Off to Kaitaia tomorrow morning, will finally get to do a load of washing, hopefully there’s not to much rain walking there!
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