Monday 7th March - Feels great to be in Wanaka. It is so developed from when I was here nearly 20 years ago!!! At first it was weird seeing and hearing traffic again, but funny how quickly you can slip back into the buzz of a town.
Farewelling the Canterbury section of the trail is quite surreal as it now means I'm down to weeks left on walking Te Araroa. Canterbury was such a wonderful section - everything is on a big large scale - the mountains, the braided rivers, the lakes and the endless brown tussock. While walking through the East Ahuriri track someone ahead of me had laid out in little stones 2500 km so that means that the downhill stretch of 500 km is all there is to go, plus my catch up North Island kms which I will loop back and do from about the 12th April. Amazing how quick it has all been going. For a daily detailed update of the trail walking, check out the Daily Notes section of this blog.
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HelloI'm Sophia Lewis and 2015 is the year I am going to commence walking the NZ Te Araroa Trail. This blog will track my progress from Cape Reinga to Bluff + Stewart Island. I start walking on the 23rd Oct and plan to finish mid April. Archives
April 2016
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