Cape Reinga - 90 Mile Beach - Ahipara
Well the tiki tour has finally started. Got a tour bus up to Cape Reinga lighthouse via the Kauri Kingdom and started tramping in the afternoon. A gentle walk in lovely sunshine over the cliffs and down to the beach, a good start as we had been expecting rain! Saw only one other person walking the beach that day, and she needed help as had lost her map and couldnt see the very obvious marker posts around the corner of the hill! The only others we saw were 3 others as we put up our tent that night just at the start of Twilight Beach, camping out in their van.
Lesson of the day: Always keep your map with you!
Beach,
Beach and more Beach.
Bus driver that took us up to Cape Reinga was awesome today, he took a load of passengers down the beach and threw a handful of lollies out of the bus door to us. Thanks Allen! Camped in the Sand Dunes that night after passing a perfectly good grassy campsite only an hour before. Sand for dinner anyone?? Johno woke up the next morning and put his head out of the tent to find a big black horse snorting at him; our first wild horse except that I didnt get to see it. Saw lots of other horses though so its ok now. Also saw pheasants and an NZ hawk. Had a long wet day on day 3 and sheltered out that night in the forest but luckily dried off the next day as only showers. Stayed at the motor camp at Waipapakauri Beach for the last night before Ahipara as Johno has man flu and the wind is really strong now. Last stretch along 90 mile beach to Ahipara 103km Section 1 complete!. AWESOME!!!
Items lost - sunglasses and 1 tent peg!
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