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An amazing journey: Walking the long pathway from Cape Reinga to Bluff
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An amazing journey: Walking the long pathway from Cape Reinga to Bluff
Thursday 30 July 2020, 09:51 PM
Pharmacy technician Kay Gooch exploring the Pelorous River Track
For the past five years, Unichem Upper Hutt Pharmacy technician Kay Gooch has been using most of her holiday leave to go walking. It isn’t just any old tramp, her goal is to walk the entire length of New Zealand. Jonathan Chilton-Towle speaks to Kay about her journey along Te Araroa, the long pathway
What motivated you to walk the length of New Zealand?, I always wanted to do the El Camino walk in Spain. But about five or six years ago, I read about Te Araroa, this great 3000km walk that started in Cap