18km to walk 5km

Today we walked a big loop to effectively gain about 5km progress. The trail originally went just 5km to get to here but a landowner died and the new landowners closed access. Now we have to do a big road walk, a short pine forest walk, then another big road walk to get to the same place. Oh, well.
The long road walking sections are mostly behind us now, till we hit Auckland.
Shona worked out we've walked 151km in the last 7 days. Now at km 375 of 3056. Knocked off the first 10%!
We are finally getting a bit fitter for the trail. We finish each day a bit less sore, and we are gradually starting to increase our daily distances. It has taken a while!Read more