Hard trails on Whangarei Heads

This was a bit of a push for us. Not too much distance at about 16km for the day, but a total vert of about 700m. That's the first real big day we've had since 90 mile beach.
The day started with 3km of beach walk and then straight into the climb to a 475m peak at the Heads of Whangarei Harbour. We won't mention the flabby old man lying naked at the end of the beach cos it was gross. The climb was steep and took a couple of hours. But the bush was awesome and we even got to hear geckos calling in the tree tops a couple of times.
The trail continued along the ridge line going down 300m and back up 250m to a second peak. By then we were pretty knackered and we still had about 400m to descend and 7km to camp.
Luckily we eventually passed a bar with a huge sign out saying walkers and visitors welcome so we fortified ourselves for the last 2km.Baca lagi