Te Araroa (day 2 and 3) - Twilight Beach to Ahipara / mile 62
Fairly uneventful day with good milage on the clock. I decided to wild camp in unassigned area (it's technically illegal on Te Araroa to do this but there was no official campsite for the next 8 miles, they are mostly paid as well). Towards the end of the day I was getting so bored with the constant sand, water and wind to the face experience that I started to look what items has been washed ashore, here's a couple of better finds: + a bottle of Suntory Whisky from Japan (but I doubt it actually swam form there) + a carcass of a dolphin (or small shark) + tub of Saxa iodised salt from Australia + tub of silicon sealant from Australia + a log of wood with hundreds of mating clams attached to it + several cans of lager made in Auckland I also found barely breathing bird with broken wing washed ashore, there was no way it would survive, I just moved it inland so it would have a peaceful last moments. Several Camino style shells has a...