Day 32 | Whatawhata
14 November 2022 | 24°C | 15km
Kinda hard to get going today after my rest days at Phil’s place. I take it easy though, have my morning coffee in the sun on the porch and finally catch up with my trail journal. Yeah! Not looking forward to carrying 4 days of food again after being “spoiled” with supermarkets in almost every city I passed through during the past week.
It is 3pm already when I start walking from the city center of Hamilton. Its pretty hot and I don’t expect an interesting walk to Whatawhata, my next stop in roughly 15km.
Halfway there Robin and 3 other young German guys catch up with me. Happy to have some distraction and Someone to talk to I follow them. They are pretty fast walkers but I manage to keep up with them and time is flying.
Once we get to the backyard of the pub in Whatawhata I see some familiar und also quite a few new faces. As the space for tents is mostly occupied already, I simply cowboy camp on the porch.
We are 15 hikers and as per the super friendly lady from the bar the biggest numbers of hikers so far this year.
Learning it the day: There are many other creative variations of mailboxes :)