• Te Araroa kilometres done: 655km
• Official kms: 29km
• Garmin kms: 30.18km
• Total time: 8.30
• Calories burned: 2642
• Body battery: 6/10. Looking forward to that zero day.
• Accommodation: Airbnb in Papakura
• Tent nights tally: 6

Up at 6am this morning. Leaving Troys at 7am as we have pre booked an Uber. It was really good to catch up with Troy last night & just chat about life.

The Uber arrived early & we were ready, so left just before 7, ready & walking near the airport at 7.30am. Neither Gokul or I had breakfast so we had a 7km walk to get to a cafe that we planned to eat at.

Not much in the way of scenery today as most of the day was spent walking on footpaths.

I was feeling a little deflated today & when I had seen a very generous donation & words of encouragement from the team at Pak’nsave Hornby, it really lifted my spirits to know that there is so much support out there & someone is always backing you!

Continuing on with the cafe tour (as Stu calls it) we stopped at Wendy’s in Papakura for lunch before continuing on to do the last 11km to get to today’s target of 30km just north of Drury.

We were completed by 3pm & back to our accommodation by 3.30pm. Since tomorrow is a zero day I had a quick shower & headed into Sylvia Park to get replacement gear from Bivouac & shop at Pak’nsave so I had more time to relax tomorrow! I need a real zero day.

I’m also meeting up with Mike & Joanne King tomorrow morning to catch up & discuss the journey so far, it will be awesome to see them.