There's been a huge response from New Zealanders hoping to reunite the actor and podcaster Bruce Hopkins with his father and brother's ashes.
Bruce Hopkins with the ashes at Cape Reinga, at the start of his journey. Photo: Supplied / Bruce Hopkins
Bruce Hopkins was walking the ashes home to Stewart Island along Te Araroa - New Zealand's Trail, and making a podcast series, The Long Way Home, for RNZ.
The ashes, along with the red waterproof pouch they were stored in and a red Olympus camera, have gone missing and a call for help was sent out on social media last Friday, in the hope that they may be returned.
There was an immediate response from people expressing their support for Hopkins and more than 1200 people shared the post in the hope that it would help him find the ashes.
People have left comments to encourage him to continue with his mission - with or without the ashes - while others have offered him a place to stay along his journey, or a cold beer for when he returns.
The ashes have yet to be found.
Hopkins thinks they may have been left at Cornwall Park, in New World College Hill, at Ralph's Bar and Eatery on Dominion Road, or at Café 121 in Ponsonby.
Or they could be sitting safely under a tree somewhere.
If you've found the ashes, please get in touch via thelongwayhome@radionz.co.nz, on Twitter @BruceHop or on Instagram @brucehoppy.
Alternatively, you can email Justin Gregory, the series producer, at Justin.gregory@radionz.co.nz.
And listen to Hopkin's weekly podcast online or here wherever you subscribe
