Day 62, Kahuterawa to Tokomaru shelter (1553)
Cloudy with sunny intervals but again very warm in the afternoon.
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| Cycle track leaving the carpark |
Kahuterawa is a mountain bike area but there were few people about in the evening and only one car arrived as I was leaving in the morning, after that I didn't see anyone all day.
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| View from the track |
The first section was an easy walk on a gravel bike track up to the road then gravel road to the Whare o Moturimu hut that I had thought of going on to yesterday.
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| Whare o Moturimu hut |
It was a very good hut, SJ and co. had stayed there the day before and it would have made today's walk easier but it didn't matter it wasn't a long day but there was 1000m of up and not much less down.
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| Start of the Burtton track |
The trail continued on a gravel track until turning off into the bush on to Burttons track, once more into the bush; mud, tree roots and lots of up and down, very enjoyable.
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| Some duckboards |
Up and down a couple of big hills and I arrived at the Tokomaru River at Burtton's Whare site, or home site.
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| Tokomaru river |
Jim Burtton lived there from 1909 until 1941 and farmed 170ha there with no road access until 1919 when he built one in after coming back from serving in the war.
I followed the river up from there, roughly on the line of Jim Burtton's road, which slowly improved as I walked, from bush path to gravel road just before the Tokomaru shelter, also known as Ian and Franks hut.
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| Dead? Tree |
A good shelter with camping space, toilet and water supply (stream).
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| Tokomaru shelter |
No-one here so I decided to sleep in the shelter. I saw in the hut book that SJ& Di gang had stayed last night.
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