GregoryGo Photography

Feels downright impossible to get a good stretch of weather in some places in . It’s like a right of passage to sit at Panekire hut and admire the shades of white through the windows. But clouds have a way of making the rest of the trail special when you look back. I certainly feel that way looking through the photos. 9/11.

I think waiting to do the was the right call. At almost 80km long, every day on the Heaphy is a fundamentally different walk. There wasn’t any days of absolute majesty like the Routeburn or the Milford but it was made up for by the variety of plant and animal life. It’s so remote, it’s highly suspected to be the last place on the planet to house the .

"Can't beat Wellington on a good day" I mutter to myself as I attempt to walk to work in gale-force winds and sideways rain.

Fog in the city a few weeks ago.