To Pakiri - More @!**%$!# Beach

Km 471 to 493
Today was another beautiful beach day. Again.
Beautiful weather when we woke, so we got our tent and fly dry. The wet tent and fly is a constant problem each morning even when it's not raining. If we pack it wet, it adds a fair bit of weight in the pack, but it takes an hour on a good day to get it dry, so we usually pack it wet. Today, we got them dry, so good start to the day. Road walking (again!) for 7 km of mostly really busy road with limited shoulder. And that's when I read the route description, which advised we had a tricky, deep, dangerous river crossing at the end of the day. Only doable for a couple of hours at low tide. A quick review of the tide tables indicated we had just enough time to cross if we didn't dawdle.
So, onto the beach for 12km.
After an hour, we went over a hill where we briefly stopped for lunch with a view. Then on we pushed. Nonstop. Past several other TA walkers, straight down the beach for 3 hours.
When we finally got to the dangerous river crossing, it turned out to barely be ankle deep!
And that, dear reader, was the end of that day cos the campground (run by evil camp nazis - don't stay here) was just the other side of the dangerous river.Leer más