Things kinda got out of hand, no reliable internet for more than a week. So I'm giving up on chronological order here, switching to pure stream of consciousness. Call me James. Fuck yeah, we did some nice hiking this time. The track I've posted earlier, the loop track around Punakaiki, is not even an "official" track, but one of the most beautiful daywalks we've ever done. I just learned that Tilda Swinton has two husbands. Anyway, since then we did a couple of more walks, one of them a nice 4-day adventure called the Heaphy Track. No huts this time, since the Reisebegleitung can't sleep in them. So we brought a tent and we're so in love with it. I never slept that well on multi-day hikes before. No more huts for me, too! The Heaphy is a beautiful and easy track, not really strenuous. The only downside is that you're in Sandfly territory all the time and especially the Heaphy Hut and Campsite is horrible. You can't eat, you can't talk. Bes
