A Rotorua kayaker paddling from Australia to New Zealand is making headway again after running dangerously low on supplies and hunkering down in bad weather.
Scott Donaldson, 34, is attempting to cross the Tasman Sea by kayak.
Yesterday Taupo helicopter pilot John Funnell delivered drinking water and a repair kit for Mr Donaldson's kayak.
Despite warnings to "hunker down" as bad weather approached late yesterday, Mr Donaldson kayaked 12 nautical miles in progress in the afternoon, and a further 10 overnight, Mr Funnell said this morning.
"He's had favourable conditions overnight [and] he's got his water and his food he'll just gnaw away at it," he said. "He may even come up across an oil rig somewhere along the way where they can give him some water over the side or something."