• Te Araroa kilometres done: 523.7
• Official kms: 27km
• Garmin kms: 28.22km
• Total time: 8.14
• Calories burned: 3603
• Body battery: 6/10. Yesterday drained me.
• Accommodation: Marks place
• Tent nights tally: 6

I felt like my sleep wasn’t that great last night. Probably due to the lack of downtime & a sore body from yesterday.

The alarm went off at 6am & we were ready to go by 7.30, Mark dropped us off at the Dome cafe, our starting point this morning.

Within 4km we had passed another milestone. 500km of the trail completed!

The track was easier than yesterday with some road, metal road, 4wd track & mud track.

About 11km into today Mark drove up with a couple of sausages rolls for us!

The last 5km of today was on the Puhoi River track. This was beautiful track, but also has forestry going on halfway through it.

After just over 28km & 8 hours I made it to the Puhoi pub where the rest were there having a beer. Gokul, Kevin & myself waited for Mark to pick us up, got back had showers & went to Matakana for dinner with the others that we hadn’t seen in days. It’s also Nici’s 30th today, so was good to be able to be there for that.

Tomorrow is a nice easy 7km kayak down the river from Puhoi & then a 10km walk to Orewa. Looking forward to an easier day. My legs are going to thank me for it.

Talking about thanks, my brother Mark has been amazing having all of us at his house & driving us to & from the track. Such an amazing thing to do & really appreciate the support!