We have had 4 nights rest,2 with Rose and Ken and 2 with Stuart in Minginui. And thank you Michael for checking our bikes and making the necessary adjustments.
I started again from where we left off at the junction of Highway 1 and Horohoro Road. After a few kilometers I was able to turn onto the Waikato River trail. Some went through bush and was lovely. Some went beside the road and was narrow and much steeper than the sealed road. I stopped to let a running man and his two cycling children pass and when I started again my foot slipped in the gravel and I and the bike tumbled into the ditch. No great damage.
It was very hot and I did not stand up to it very well. Ron was waiting for me in Arapuni and we had lunch and then came to the Jim Barnett Reserve at Waotu to camp. This is a lovely spot. A little patch of replanted native bush, trees are named,there are toilets, lots of birdie. Generally very pleasant.
We heated the solar showers and showered au naturelle.
In the evening the thunder rolled around us as we did battle with the insects trapped on the tent. There was a shower which drove off a group of aspiring campers so we have the place to ourselves again. The thunder got closer and it rained again but not for long.
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