On the trail for 2 more days
30 November 2024
From Kerikeri to "The Farm" campsite. 58 km.
Kerikeri is good town with plenty of shops to resupply, I had to walk 3km to get back on the TA trail again. On the way there I met a group of 6 young people walking together. They'd all met each other along the way and decided to walk together.
The TA trail reached, I was soon left on their dust, literally, as it was on a gravelly forest track that wound it's way slowly uphill. Most of the forest had been harvested so there little shade, and it was a hot day. Travelled 24km. Camped by the sea and had a good sleep.
Next day, off early with another 34km ahead of me, and a very hot day again. Another gravel road, so hard on the feet and soul, that snaked steeply up through a native forest and down the orher side. Eventually a tar-sealed road was reached, with a further 3km to reach "The Farm" my next rest stop for the night. I have about another 250km to go have journied the length of New Zealands North Island NZ. Phew 😃
