Friday, February 15: Cloudy and a bit cooler to begin with, a brief, very light drop of rain, sunny & hot in the afternoon
Kayaking: 38.0 km
Whakahoro Bunkroom (Doc, $10)
It had gotten suddenly much cooler in the night, and my position on top of the sleeping bag had to be exchanged for under it; but not in it, not yet anyway. I was up after 6:00. Breakfast was an egg, 40&nsp;g of Kransky sausage (quite acceptable), 50 g of crackers and margarine, and one double coffee. Only thing I had forgotten was that the spoon I had measured the coffee & sugar into their containers with was not the same spoon that took out the quantities. Anyhow.
Tent was a bit wet, but other than that everything packed up just fine. A tip for cooling water: Have at least 0.5 L in the stronger water bottle & pour hot water into it. In that way the water temperature is immediately halved and can be transferred to the other bottle. I was ready to go by 8:30, this time with a backpack on board from the start. Read more…
