Our longest day yet!

We got 23.5km today, I am now pretty pooped! We headed off around 8.30am and headed down the road. We found quite a few escaped moos along the way. We carried on Russell Road which turned into dirt road. It is a beautiful walk through Kauri forest, there was literally no one on the road. We only saw one lady and her dog Muffin at the very end of the gravel road.

About 12km of our day was done when we hit tarmac again. About 4km after that I started getting pretty worn out as we tried to up the pace. Well we slowed back down and took our time. Throughout the day we took plenty of breaks and I am glad we did. We got offered a ride 500m from the campground so I said thank you but no thank you. Typical I would have said yes if I it was earlier. We arrived at Orongo Bay at 5.30pm there is a food truck as we walk into camp, lucky for us they close at 7pm. Quickly pitch camp, shower and go to eat! Rata’s kitchen has Asian fusion food and it was delicious. We went back for seconds as it was so good.