• Te Araroa kilometres done: 1215.7km
• Official kms: 24.7km
• Garmin kms: 25.14km
• Total time: 4:58
• Calories burned: 2108
• Body battery: 8/10
• Accommodation: Whakahoro hut
• Tent nights tally: 10

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This morning after a nice breakfast from Sharon I am heading off 25km down the road to Whakahoro. Antonia is getting a ride at 8.30am from the Canoe hire company down to Whakahoro so will be at the end waiting for me.

We were lucky the other night to secure 2 of the beds in the 10 bed bunk room as someone must of cancelled so we snapped it up. It’s raining again so makes life easier than tenting.

I set off just after 8.30am & walked the 1st 7km of tar seal road before getting to the point where the final 18km was on gravel.

There was some old historic buildings & sites along todays walk.

The weather was good & the walking was easy, so today I decided to just pump out the kilometres & walked the whole 25km without stopping, hence getting it done in under 5 hours.

Once I reached the campsite, Antonia & I had lunch before realising that the cafe was open! After lunch & around 2:30pm we headed up to the cafe for a flat white & a couple of ginger beers, Kevin & Michael had just arrived & were eating lasagne.

Marko turned up not long after & bought the last ginger beers to share with the rest of the group.

Everyone had turned up by 4pm & we just spent the evening relaxing, getting ready to be on the water tomorrow!