• Te Araroa kilometres done: 1515km
• Official kms: 30km
• Garmin kms: 31.19km
• Total time: 7:42
• Calories burned: 3809
• Body battery: 8/10
• Accommodation: Whare o Moturimu hut
• Tent nights tally: 14
• Zero days had so far: 11

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This morning is the last day of spending time with Danny & his family, it was kind of sad to leave! They have been amazing & we felt so welcomed & at home.

We were good to go at 8am after a coffee & pancakes! Danny dropped us off at the walking bridge in Palmy, where we finished on Thursday afternoon. The morning started with drizzle but not enough to have to put a raincoat on.

The awesome part of today was that it was mainly trail & hardly any road!

Nici & I walked to the 1500km (halfway!!!) point before stopping for our first break, lunch. This was the halfway point for the Te Araroa & today!

The day had turned from rain to hot & muggy, so I decided to have a short lunch & push on for a bit. About 7km later we ended up at the road end which was a carpark with a toilet & nice picnic area. We decided to have an early afternoon tea here also.

The last 8km was 4km of mountain bike track & 4km of gravel road / forestry road. We then arrived at the awesome little Whare o Moturimu hut.

It was just Nici & I there but was still early being 4:30pm. We both went down to the creek for a wash & to cool off & then back to the hut to organise stuff.

Just after 5pm two others turned up, but it only ended up being the 4 of us for the night. Nici decided to sleep in her tent & the 3 of us slept in the hut.

Looking forward to tomorrow, it’s only 15km to our destination so should be fairly easy.