Day 4 | km 116-168 | The Northland Forests - Raetea

Host to Northlands highest peak, and may I add, the muddiest (!) - Raetea Forest is steep, rooty, rugged and most definitely not for the fait hearted. It really does make you feel 90 Mile beach was in fact a relaxing holiday in paradise. With a turn in weather and the brewings of a storm blowing in, my hike up was humid as hell! It was great to chat in passing to so many female hikers taking on the TA, YOU GO GIRLS!

After popping out the forest I had 6.5km of State Highway 1 followed by what I thought would be another 6.5km of a dirt road…this turned out to be over 10km and counting…my watch had died and slowly was I. Dusk was drawing closer and with it a giant rain cloud, whilst unfortunately Apple Dam Campsite was still nowhere in sight. To top it all, I seemed to have developed quiet a fat foot that I was choosing to ignore…this was going to be an interesting night…