26km total 704km 8.5 hours total 196.5 hours After my second breakfast (pancakes yeah) I legt the service station at 9h30. Immediately the track went into a tramping standard one and soon I was scrambling, sweating and fighting my way through the swamps and the abundant vegetation. Some sweet cake was waiting for me at […]
31km total 678km 8.5hours total 188hours After breakfast I left my fantastic one day family and hit the roads again. Going through a construction site before hitting hilly roads was especially hard under the hot sun. Hiking on the State highway wasn’t easy either. Finally we left the roads for the trail and it was […]
31km total 647km 11hours with lots of breaks total 179h30 I got an early start for once. That’s mainly because it was so noisy in the terminal and I couldn’t get a real sleep. After a coffee I was leaving the airport city on the busy road heading east. I then took some time to […]
34km total 616km 8h30 total 168h30 It is time to hike again. Today’s section will be a little bit like toursim. I started downtown from the Quays and follows the coast to coast walkway. It went through the university, on Mont Eden, again through the university, on One Tree Hill down to Onehunga, on a […]
0 km and 0 hours Time to rest and do some shopping. I bought a new pair of hiking poles and did some resupply. Also used time to rest and let my small injuries heals up.
34 km total 582 km 8hours total 160 hours For once I will have to start late. Because the low tide for the estuary crossing was at 16h00 I had to wait in camp before setting of at 15h00. With the good explanation from the Stillwater motor camp owner , the crossing went well. Then […]
28km total 548km 11h total 152h with 3 hours break waiting for the low tide After getting back to the road from my sleeping place I road walked to the Wenderholm regional Park and crossed the small hill from the Couldrey House to Waiwera. There the next section was on beaches and on rocks. As […]
31km total 520km 7h30 total 141h Youhouuuuu the 500k symbolic distance is done. It was a good feeling and compensated a bit with the scorching heat of the day. It isn’t even the up and down that kill me but more the heat which means the tmy body isn’t avlent to cool down quick enough. […]
26km total 489km 9h total 132h30 After a good coffee it was time to head to the forest. I started late and regretted it a little because of the heat. It is one of the days where I sweated quite a lot. The first summit Omaha Forest) was more or less easy but the second […]
28km total 463km 8h30 total 123h30 On today’s program was some road walk and some beach walk to connect to the next forest track. I took my second breakfast at Mangawhai and had also another good flat white there. Then the trail goes further on dusty gravel road. Finally you arrive the first beach you’ll […]
