Just a few more days left
I think this was day 5. I was beat from climbing all the way from the bottom. The path crosses the road, but the south west portion of the track is hard, and mostly up hill. I was also super super hungry. I ran out of meal bars for lunch/breakfast so i only had supper left. THis is also the first time i tossed on my rain clothes. The wind was litterally tearing me off the mountain. So i was glad to go down into the gully and to the left(west). But the wind and rain did not let up for a few days.
The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more 
