Contemplating — and only contemplating — a swim in the Tasman Sea off Hokitika, New Zealand.
Hokitika, on the wet west coast of New Zealand’s South Island, was a rowdy gold-mining town in the 1860s (it was the largest settlement in the country in 1866 with 25,000 miners and 100 pubs) but is now better known for carved greenstone, sedate glowworms and funky driftwood art.
About Joel
Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."
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