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Saturday, January 24, 2026

🚴 Biking Day

Hari Hari to Hokitika

Today we’ biked from Hari Hari to Hokitika!

We continued to follow the “Westcoast Wilderness Trail” that runs from Ross to Hokitika. Today started with a little bit on quiet roads and then a single-track gravel cycleway. It was a really fun ride, without too much climbing.

We have started running into cicadas (or cicada like insects) that were excruciatingly loud on parts of the trail.

We are staying at a holiday park just before Hokitika. We dropped off our stuff and explored the town. There is a driftwood building competition on the beach this weekend, so we looked through that. We also picked up some groceries and did a short geocache “adventure lab”.

There wasn’t a ton of water at the holiday park, but we scraped by, having our showers and cooking dinner before it turned off!

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There is some insect that sounds like a cicada that is incredibly loud. Painfully

Gravel action shot

A photo control point for the route. A lake with what looked like a closed campsite under renovation