The Bits We Didn’t Tell You (Auckland to Bluff)

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The Editor’s Cuts


Auckland to Bluff took us 93 days, including nine rest days. Of these rest days, five were weather related, two were for social reasons (hanging out with friends), one was for admin (to book the kayak section etc.) and one because we just felt like we needed a good rest!

Over the last 3.5 months (before reaching Bluff) between us we have had: 

  • Two trips back to Auckland (one funeral, one wedding) 
  • One hospital visit 
  • One physio appointment 
  • One osteopath appointment 
  • One GP appointment 
  • Two lots of X rays
  • One lot of blood tests 
  • Lots of Voltarin and paracetamol (K only) 
  • Some tears (from K only and fortunately not too often) 
  • Some swearing (from both of us, but usually on different days and usually aimed at the track or the trail app, not at each other!) 
  • A lot of flavoured tuna sachets (in wraps with cheese for lunch, pretty much every day!)
  • New found love for condensed milk in coffee
  • Lots of Coconut milk or coconut yoghurt powder - either with cereal or in a new dessert with couscous and cranberries
  • An unnatural possessiveness of half used toilet rolls 

Also:

  • When working through the alphabet for song titles to sing whilst walking along a long beach, there was only one letter where we could not think of a song - can you guess which one? 
  • Roger took great pleasure in trying to identify the producers of various different animal poos seen on the trail. 


All in all, it could be said that we definitely need to get out more!!! 

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