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Te Araroa – Cape Reinga to Auckland
It’s been a year since we had to leave the Te Araroa trail. I’ve finally turned all of our video footage into a travel video. Yeah, I guess you can tell that we…
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Leaving the Trail
We made it 685 kilometres and we just had to pull the pin. My second youngest brother, Rex has a syndrome. Because of this, everything is much harder for him – balancing, physical…
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Hiking Recipe to make Peanut Butter More Edible- Sesame Snaps
Is it just me or do you all include a lot of peanut butter in your hiking rations? It’s the perfect hiking food. It’s cheap, it’s high in calories and has heaps of…
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Underground Bunkers, Peaches and Skyscrapers – Hiking through Auckland
Coming into Auckland the trail kept sending us on and off the beach, it couldn’t make up its mind. We found some caves along the beach. They didn’t go into the cliff very…
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Two River Crossings (One Failed) a Boat Ride and a Swim
We had to do two tide-reliant river crossings on the one day. Unfortunately, low tide wasn’t until quite late and we couldn’t leave camp until 2 pm, a ridiculously late start for us.…
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Streams, Ferries, Beaches and a Tsunami Freak-out
We stayed a night at a caravan park in Paihia. It was $86 for one night and all we got was a tiny patch of grass and bad facilities! But I did get…
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The Hardest Day of my Life – The Raetea Forest
The Raetea forest… I’m sorry but this post isn’t about the wonderfulness of hiking. If you want to just think tramping is always wonderful and happy and skipping through grassy meadows you should…
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Te Araroa – the First 100 km of Tramping
As we started to hike the Te Araroa we were all pretty nervous. It was really foggy when we left the lighthouse at Cape Reinga and there wasn’t much in the way of…
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Melbourne to the start of the Te Araroa
We walked down great nanna’s road to the bus stop. It was a bit tricky to fit into the bus with our huge bags. We took up two seats each. We got off…
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Ultra-Light, Ultra-Cheap Sleeping Bags
My dad was so tight that he didn’t want to buy proper, small and lightweight sleeping bags. Dad (the great shopper that he is) found our sleeping bags online. They only cost 19AUD…
