They arrived at 12.20pm local time (10.20am Australian time and 11.20pm UK time) on Ngamotu Beach, on New Zealand’s west coast.
What an amazing achievement! There aren’t enough words to express how thrilled and in awe we are of both of them. It makes us truly proud to be Aussies in the UK!
Geoff and I have been logging into the Crossing the Ditch site daily to track the guys’ progress. We have watched that little kayak graphic move across the ocean for the past two months. It’s felt like a far longer time, than the years of research and training we have known about leading up to this expedition.
We spent all yesterday on the website, watching the km countdown, in the website forum and tracking online news from home and in New Zealand.
If you missed out on the coverage, here are some video news links from The ABC and Sky News.
Congratulations guys! We can’t imagine what it must feel like to be walking on land again, eating real food, taking a shower and getting sleep in a proper bed... so many things we take for granted!
