Omahuta Forest to Puketi Forest - 31+ km 9 hours
Leaving Omahuta with autumn mist in the valley, I was soon into bush, walking on forest roads for a couple of hours. Then the route goes down to a stream - managed to find a track for two thirds of that ... A lovely stream at the bottom to walk along in a narrow gorge for an hour, enjoying the cool water on my feet every few minutes in the next crossing. It then joined a larger river.
The track then followed that river upstream (see pic) - after some time trying to keep to the river bank I found that it was much easier in the river too, crossing to and fro in thr shallower parts. Then 4 kms up a fairly gentle ridge track through a huge grove of regenerating kauri trees. This took me onto another forest road that has recently been remetalled, and I managed a wrong turn on a new road to the quarry from where all the metal had come.
