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Meet a couple who retraced their steps on the Heaphy Track as a family, 20 years after doing it the first time.

Lisa and Peter Dudfield from Cambridge completed the Heaphy Track with their teenage daughters in 2020. It was their second time around after first doing the walk 20 years ago,  combining a kayaking trip around Abel Tasman and a friend’s wedding in Nelson. “That was before smartphones and Google,” says Peter. “There was no checking […]
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