10th hiking day Starting very early today – 7.20am – we continued hiking through Mount Linton station farmlands. We experienced our first river crossing today! Nothing spectacular but definitely enough cold water to wake me up ? The trail followed some small country roads with some up and down hill walks. When the trail went […]
Yesterday night we enjoyed some beers at the campground in Otautau ? and went to bed quite late. I tried a cider with lemon and mandarin flavor and it had a somehow strange and really sweet taste – actually just perfect for me ? We slept in today and just got everything packed around noon. […]
Hiking day no. 5 After a good night of sleep at Colac Bay campground, we started packing everything and had our breakfast in the campground’s kitchen. We met five TA hikers at the campground, one heading north as well and the others were soon to finish their through hike in Bluff. The girl heading north […]
Starting our day with wonderful sunshine in the morning, we set of towards Colac Bay. We made it another great and easy-going hiking day ? We enjoyed the sun and took a swim in the sea ?! Sunscreen was definitely our most important and most needed item today ? Reaching the town of Colac Bay, […]
We finally started our hike from Bluff! Many thanks to John and Sharon who provided us a wonderful breakfast and a ride from Invercargill to Bluff ? When Sharon dropped us off at the very start from the Te Araroa we suddenly realized – after weeks of looking forward to this moment – that this […]