42 km – 8.5 hours From Mercer there is a short up and down track that runs parallel to the main road, providing a great view of the Waikato River and taking me to the Whangamarino Redoubt historical site. From there it was a walk alongside SH1, but fortunately a wide verge, so no big [...]

Walking along the stopbank to the hunlty power station. I was thinking to make Hamilton today. But a nice Devonshire tea with Sarah in the morning slowed the day and I looked ahead and realized that I had to stop by 630 or face 15k of roadwalking into the evening. Beautiful track this afternoon. Nice [...]

A fair bit of road walking followed by walking down 4 lane SH1, followed by field after field of young and curious bulls. However the day ended with a nice pub meal and Sarah came down and we had a nice night at a hostel. Check out where Roland was when he wrote this. More [...]