Modern tracks are more accessible and that’s a good thing
TRACK BUILDING has come a long way since I was a child, mostly, I think, for the better. I didn’t always think that way. I remember walking the track to Cathedral Cove when it seemed no one else knew about the amazing Coromandel beach. It was a horrible, exhausting track. But the reward of a deserted beach, with a waterfall to shower beneath made it an exciting adventure. By contrast, when I first walked the modern concrete path the trail has since become, the trip no longer sparked joy; the sense of adventure was lost (sharing the trail with hundreds of others didn’t help, either). Until a few years ago, I used to mourn that loss of adventure but the truth is the old track could not handle the volume of traffic…
