Day 104 | Pelorus Bridge
25 January 2023 | 21°C | 24km
Dear Richmonds, we soon have to say goodbye!
It’s our last morning by a hut in the mountains. Just a few more kilometers on some forest trail with sometimes more, sometimes less roots and stones until we pop out onto a gravel road leading to Pelorus bridge.
It’s roughly 14km of road walk along farmland … a new feeling to be able to look around AND walk instead of watching every footstep and stopping to take a look around.
We reach the bridge and thus the road from Nelson to Havelock at 4pm. Too late to get something from the popular coffee place that closes at 3.30pm we think but to our surprise the door is still open and we can quickly grab a piece of a yummy carrot cake.
It’s sunny and still relatively early so instead of pitching our tents, we decide to hitch to the town of Havelock and slackpack (leave our backpacks at the hostel and walk with a light pack) the missing 22km the next day.
