Day Thirty Two Kaikorai Valley

Today I was back walking in Kaikorai Valley completing all the streets up to Stuart Street, where I finished yesterday.  Today I walked 15 streets.

426. Manchester Street
427. Ipswich Street
428. St Albans Street
429. St Albans Close
430. Glenelg Street
431. Lixmont Street
432. Hector Street
433. Hermond Street
434. Frasers Road
435. Coleridge Street
436. Malta Street

437. Hereford Street
438. Kaikorai Valley Road
439. Oates Street
440. Falcon Street

Kaikorai Valley Road is about 6km end to end and since I had walked about half of it, today I had plans to finish walking all of it.  The first street off Kaikorai Valley Road that I walked today was Manchester Street which wound it's way uphill and gave me good views looking along where I was headed on Kaikorai Valley Road.

Further along Kaikorai Valley Road I walked up Glenelg Street and it was great looking back at the streets on the top of the hill where I had been only yesterday. You can see the top of the church I mentioned yesterday and the houses below the church are on Northview Crescent while the houses on the hill straight above the street I am walking are on Pitcairn Street, which is where I had been walking only a couple of days ago.  

 

 

It wasn't long before I was walking Frasers Road which leads to Frasers Gully.   The gully follows Frasers Stream  through native bush up towards Dalziel Road.  There are a number of short walks in Frasers Gully that are popular with dog walkers and families.  At the start of Frasers Road is Ellis Park which are sports fields that can be busy with sport  at the weekends. . 

 

I continued walking along Kaikorai Valley Road until I reached Stuart Street then headed along Oates Street.  It was good to look towards Helensburgh with Flagstaff rising behind.  

 

As I walked further along Oates Street the view changed to looking towards Mount Cargill and the streets near my home.  I have not walked any of these streets yet. 

I also got to look down on Ellis Park where I had been earlier in my walk.  The fields of Ellis Park looked large when I was beside them and they also looked big from Oates Street

On the corner of Oates and Falcon Street  (I had walked the top of the Falcon Street yesterday) there is a plaque to commemorate the British Antartic Expedition of 1912 lead by Robert Falcon Scott and supreme sacrifice of Capt. Oates to the expedition.  Falcon Street is a very steep street and I was pleased to be walking down it. 

Today on my walk I saw some ducks in Glenelg Street and sheep in Frasers Road.  It is a bit unusual to see sheep in the middle of the city and this is the first sheep I have seen.

 

 

Today I also saw this cleverly painted telephone cabinet.  I am enjoying discovering all the painted telephone cabinets around the city. 

 

Distance walked:  8.6 km      Walking time  1 hr 35 mins    

Total distance: 278.2 km       Total walking  52 hr 07 mins