There’s a track up in the hills behind Whakatane called the Bird Walk, yeah, creative naming, it’s a nice walk and there are birds. It’s part of Nga Tapuwae o Toi, the “Footprints of Toi”, a collection of walkways around Whakatane. The Bird Walk section is also known and the Mokoroa Bush Scenic Reserve.
And with this scenery come some hefty climbs. There are about 3 sets of these stairs on the way round the loop:
So yes, nice walk, then I go ruin it all with some heavy breathing:
The first cut of this video was able to very quickly induce motion sickness. Ran a deshake plugin across it and now it’s almost watchable… Filmed with a little GoPro camera strapped to my chest.