Total Time 6 hours

I do believe we have decided to walk New Zealand!!  Three kilometres uphill to the lookout and we walked 2.5 kms of it.

Half-way up the Hill

The grade varied from 12 % to 18%, impossible to cycle with loaded touring bikes, at least we could not do it.  May be we will come back after finishing the south Island and prove that these hills can be done on a loaded touring bike.

Looking Back to Coromandel

The rest of the day should have been rolling hills but again they were steep hills and we walked a lot of them.  It is very disappointing for us, but the views are absolutely stunning.  The downhills are absolutely terrifying.  My top speed today was 53.9 kms scary.

Screaming downhill – 54 kph!

We decided to take tomorrow as a rest day.  Whitianga is a lovely seaside town, with lots of services and a couple of nice camp sites.

To see the route to date check out the map in the next post.