The taxi dropped us off on a back road and we had an easy walk along dirt roads through more perfect farmland to Takahue. Daniel had control of the phone so we have a lot of photos of cows and not much else. 15kms later we got the the campsite – a patch of...
After days of the beach we were looking forward to an easy day – 14kms along roads to Kaitaia. We walked through more of the best farmland ever, all rolling hills covered in lush vegetation. We left about the same time as two young guys and kept them in sight...
We didn’t get off to a great start. We got dropped off at Cape Reinga at about 6pm. It was foggy and windy and horrible. We still hadn’t packed our bags with our food and hadn’t slept for 36 hours, and had 12.5kms to walk before we could set up our...
We’re on our way to do the Te Araroa, a 3000km tramp down the length of New Zealand. With five kids. And, as usual, we’re under-prepared. That’s why it’s called Messy...
