• Te Araroa kilometres done: 1047km
• Official kms: 0
• Garmin kms: 0
• Total time: 0:00
• Calories burned: 0
• Body battery: 9/10
• Accommodation: Airbnb in Taumarunui
• Tent nights tally: 10

Big sleep in this morning. I woke just after 7am, mainly due to the reason we didn’t get to bed until 10pm!

Today is an admin day. Organising & purchasing what’s needed to take to the Canoe hire at 6.45am tomorrow, where will do the briefing & load our waterproof barrels ready for when we hit the water on the 9th. This means taking shelf stable food, but we can get away with some luxuries such as chips & wine.

After deciding what was needed & making a list for the next 12 days of food we went in to the local New World (it’s been in a temporary location for the last 15 months) & purchased everything required. The new store is due to open on the 24th of January & looks like it will be quite impressive!

It seemed half of the customers at the store was our group, who were also resupplying for the Canoe section.

After getting back to our accommodation it was time to sort what was needed for the Canoe, the next few days & the 4 days of hiking that Antonia will join me on in a couple of days.

Not much else today apart from relaxing & recovering. 28km planned for tomorrow after the briefing & will be our last night at this awesome spot. It’s also looking like the weather is going to be cooler so that’s great!