Lower North Island

Road walking south of Palmerston North and heading towards the Tararua Mountains.

Above:Parts of the Tararua's looked very much like the set in "Middle Earth"

Below: Sarn and friend Paul, joined us for 2 days hiking.

Nephews, Isaiah and Joachim, joined us for our last day in the Tararua's.

Highway 1 on the west coast, approx 30 km's north of Wellington. 

Above Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand.

Looking down the south coast of Wellington. 

At the Te Araroa Trail Monument in Island Bay, with brother Beni. The official end of the North Island leg of the trail.

On the footsteps of Parliament, with members of Parliament and New Zealand Special Olympics.

In previous blogs I mentioned I will talk about the gear that we carry...It is coming. 

We are going through another slight transformation in our gear, so as soon as we have our final" kit"

organized, I will post it and compare what we are now carrying to what we started with.

The North Island summary will be posted soon.

Happy Trails!!