A shorter day in km's but the more stops you have to longer the day becomes! This just confirms the wise words of Richard Smith - take care with your coffee stops - don't sit there longer than the coffee. Not that we did today however it is suprising how much the coffee stops, the picture stops, the top of hill stops, the breather and re-group stops all chew in to the total taken between when you leave one place and arrive at your destination.
The road is remarkably quiet (as in no foreign tourists in campers) Yay! Riding through the Waipoua Kauri Forest was great and of course me made a visit to Tane Mahuta who was very pleased to see us.
Again there was a reasonable distance of gravel road and again nice and quiet. The only problem with gravel roads is the engineers design the bends with a camber on them that is best trvelled at about 30 kph - that's great if you're in a car with four wheels travelling at a reasonable speed - however for those of us on two wheels and travelling a lot slower the camber on the left hand side of the road can at tmes be completely out of the question to ride and so you find yourself on the wrong side of the road however always with an escape plan in mind.
There was a very nice couple of local lads about 7 km out of Dargaville who had set up a cold water stand along with water melon! I had water but would never say no to water melon so I stopped and enjoyed some of the locally grown melon.
It wasn't too much longer before I was at the Subway shop ordering my lunch before taking it and myself on to our motel for the night.
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