Te Araroa Day 2, Twilight to Bluff
A dry night and a bright start which stayed all day, there was even a northerly wind to blow me down the beach.
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| Looking back to Cape Reinga |
The first three kilometers were through the bush to Scott point where I got the first view of Ninety Mile Beach, a long wooden staircase led down to the sand and I started the tramp. |
| First view of Ninety Mile Beach |
What can I say about a seventeen mile walk along the beach? A bit like a never ending version of Burghead beach but with much bigger seas, dry bare sand dunes and some different birds. |
| Rock with a hole. Looking like Bow Fiddle rock |
I had lunch in the dunes to avoid high tide so I could keep walking on good hard sand below the high water level.
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| Lunch stop |
The birds were similar to home but the only ones that appeared identical were Oystercatchers and Black Backed Gulls. |
| A sort of Cormorant but with a white underside |
The only people on the beach were the Te Araroa walkers who had set off at various times in the morning and one car heading north at high speed. Ninety Mile Beach is also a road! |
| No camping in the dunes |
Camping is restricted to the campsites so everyone arrived at Bluff for the night.
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| Bluff campsite |
2 comments:
Meditative walking I guess!!
Is the map in miles or kilometres? J
The map is marked in kilometers, 30k more beach tomorrow and still not the end.
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