Start day minus one month

The route begins at Cape Reinga and tracks along Ninety Mile Beach for several days. 

A sensible person would not get started until it is low tide along the beach during daylight. I am a sensible person, mostly.

It looks like tides will be right in the last week of September. As long as the five-day forecast isn't perfectly awful, I'll start moving around then. The walk is 3000km, so an uncertain start date won't make much of a difference to when I wander in to Bluff. 

Fast hikers take about three months, I'm guessing I might take six!