Wednesday 08.02.2023

• Te Araroa kilometres done: 1792.5km
• Official kms: 26km
• Garmin kms: 28.06km
• Total time: 8:06
• Calories burned: 3048
• Body battery: 6/10 bad sleep last night
• Accommodation: Lester’s bach
• Tent nights tally: 14
• Zero days had so far: 15

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This morning we have a shuttle organised for 8am back up to the trail, this saves us walking up the road with 100 metres of elevation when it’s off the track anyway. We were ready at ten to eight an were shuttled up & started just before 8am!

The initial climb was just shy of 300 metres & we seemed to get it done pretty quickly considering we had full packs. The views as we gained elevation were amazing!

We went with the tried & tested break at every 5km point. This worked well for us. Stopping for lunch at just after 12 where we caught up with our two Swiss friends who we had been leap frogging for the past few days. We sat & had lunch with them.

Within just over a little more than 6 hours we were in Anikiwa, the caravan shop was open so we had a coke & I got a bottle of water each so we had enough for the final 7kms to the Queen Charlotte tavern.

We managed to get there just on 4pm, we also invited our two Swiss friends back to Lester’s Bach to stay & join us for dinner.

I resupplied my pack ready for the next 3 days as well as got some washing done. We had a wine & a nice meal, it was also a great place to watch the sunset.

Tomorrow I plan to walk to Pelorus bridge which is over 30km. Lester & the other two are off to Nelson as the two girls are doing a zero to resupply there & starting back at Pelorus bridge Friday morning.