Friday 5th March – Whananki North to past Ngunguru – 25.8 km – 6.5 hours Crossing the long Whananaki Estuary footbridge there were children coming in the opposite direction on their daily walk to school. Then onto a coastal track, with a minor detour to the Captain Bouganville memorial to people from a French freighter [...]

Thursday 4th March – On to Whananaki – 30 km – 8 hours Now in the Whangarei section of Te Araroa. From the Russell Walkway through Mokau to Helena Bay, then some backroads to the start of what will soon be an officially complete Morepork – Onekainga Track. The first section was an old forest [...]