The day started good. We said goodbye to lovely Michaela & Gareth who I am sure are glad to have the house to themselves. Packed up making sure we had everything to go got our packs in and Rowan asked me “where are my clips.” I had them still packed far out, so packs off and time to rummage. I found them then had to repack both backpacks. Roughly a 4km walk to the ferry terminal which didn’t take us long but man I felt the heat. I thought we would be waiting over an hour as the timetable but we got on in about 10min which I was happy about. We did detour to Matiu Island to drop off and pick up some passengers.

Once off the ferry at Days Bay we walked a kilometre and found a nice pohutakawa and a chance to have some egg sandwiches. I also take off my boots and put blister plasters on, I lost all my hard skin in Australia. We follow the coastline all the way to the top 10 campground. The heat of the day really gets to us and we didn’t have enough water. 6 hours in full sun, even with sunblock and appropriate clothing takes it out of you. We have a few short rests after lunch and when we had 3km to go my feet really started hurting and Rowan’s ankle starts playing up. So we take it fairly easy as we don’t need him with an injury! We meet a lovely couple on the beach Ewan & Susanne and have a good chat. I really missed having chats to people we bump into. A kilometre to go and we find some lime scooters and we attempt to get them going but utterly fail. Wasting our time we give up and walk the last 1km arriving around 5pm. We do our usual pitch the tent and get our boots off. It will definitely take a few days to get into the swing of things again.