We crossed over on the ferry to South Island on Boxing Day at 830am. The boys as well. Wayne and I started the Queen Charlotte Track the same day. The boys were starting the next day and running 58 km to catch up with us at Mistletoe Bay. We started at 3 pm and had 24km to do so it was a long way with reduced time. We even jogged a little way and arrived at our first campsite at Camp Bay by 730pm.
The next day was a long 33km day. The Queen Charlotte Track is beautiful but hard under foot so arrived Mistletoe Bay with sore feet. No complaints as we were much better off than Sam and Sean who made it in by 8pm tired sore hungry and thirsty. They must have downed 5 litres of powerade each back when they got in.
The next day we walked 12 km to end of track then we went on to Havelock and the boys back to Picton and home. We had a night in Havelock to do refuel for next leg in the Richmond Forest Park.
We were a little disappointed with the last day on the Queen Charlotte as mountain bikers are allowed and being holidays the track was too congested with walkers and mountain bikers together.
After Havelock we were off to the Richmond Ranges.
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