• Official Kms: 14.5km
• Garmin kms: 16.03km
• Total time: 4.11
• Calories burnt: 1660
• Body battery : 9/10. Great sleep, no more beach!
• Accommodation: Motel in Kaitaia
• Tent night: still 2

We woke up at 5.45am this morning, no rain but it did get heavy during the night. The plan is to leave at 7.30am & it’s only 15km into Kaitaia. Today is life admin day. We all need to wash clothes, go shopping & get ready for the next leg, the Northland forest’s. So the plan is to get there at midday.

It was mainly road walking today & the roads were so busy! It seemed everyone was heading to the beach today. We walked an initial 5km & stopped for a break & then a further 6km before the next.

We got into Kaitaia not long after 11am & walked down the Main Street of town to reach our motel for the night.

Getting there before midday & they checked us in! So good to be able to get stuff done as our resupply box was here, before heading out shopping again.

Gokul & I decided to enjoy some KFC for lunch. Not just a small feed either, a bucket to share!And then our group minus me caught a taxi up to pak’nsave & hunting & fishing etc. I opted to stay behind to do laundry as I didn’t need much in the way of food so Gokul is getting the few things I need.

We are catching up with the crew for dinner tonight, it will be good to get most of us together again as we were all spread out yesterday. Meeting at 6pm at Beachcomber.

It was good to catch up with everyone for dinner & hope that we still get to catch up with everyone in the coming days / weeks. It’s just about bedtime & I will be off grid for the next few days, will have a new blog by mid next week.