Day 5 - heal me

Ahipara —-> Kaitaia 14km (bus)

We’d discussed the previous night whether we wanted to walk today. My feet were in agony and Josh’s knee was giving him some jip so we’d left it til this morning to decide. It took us all of 17 seconds to decide to rest. I wanted to spend the day with my feet in the pool, I kinda needed them for this trip and I was going to really ruin them if they couldn’t heal.

We got the local bus (slash van) from the holiday park into Kaitaia where we checked into a motel and just chilled. Sorted our bags out, did some shopping and had a beer or two with Milton & Steph before they got a lift over to a friends in Broadwood - we’ll hopefully be meeting back up with them later down the track.

Planning the next section was actually rather tricksy - there are a heap of diversions in place due to first closures and land slips, but we made a plan, packed 6 days worth of food into our backpacks and watched Bridesmaids in bed with a takeaway.