• Official kms: unknown as it’s still a detour.
• Garmin kms: 22.18km
• Total time: 5.19
• Calories burnt: 2358
• Body battery: 6/10, sleep was pretty average last night.
• Accommodation: Staying at my sisters house!
• Tenting nights count = 3.

I woke just before 6am this morning, my alarm was set for 7am. It felt like I spent a lot of time awake last night.

Today’s plan is to leave at around 9am, so I’m going to spend this morning just relaxing a bit & maybe having a couple of coffees.

I ended up taking off with Nicci at just after 8.30am, we ended up walking 12km before we decided to have our 1st break.

Today’s walk was consistently tar seal roads, occasional avoiding big logging trucks. We did another 5km before the next break, where we sat down & realised our spot wasn’t that great as it smelt like something had died there, but once the pack was off & we had sat down, it took a good 10 minutes to be able to move again.

It wasn’t long before we reached Mangamuka & the infamous dairy/takeaways where I enjoyed a hot pie, cheeseburger & a just juice bubbles (the trail hunger was real!) for a late lunch. My feet hurt more today than any beach day as 22km of hard sealed road has no give!

I sat & waited for Gokul, Caroline & Jon & once they had arrived about 45 minutes later & enjoyed an ice cream each, I contacted my sister to let her know that we were ready to be picked up.

We walked a further 800 metres down the road to Omahuta road to be picked up there as that is our starting point tomorrow. Not long after arriving, mum turned up to take us all back to my sisters place.

We had a great evening having boil up & just catching up! It is always good to see family!

Tomorrow mum is dropping us off where she picked us up from & we will spend the next 2 days walking through Puketi forest before being picked up at the other end to come back to my sisters.