Day Forty Wakari

 Today I enjoyed my walk up and down the hill.  I walked 17 streets

519. Beresford Street
520. Farley Street
521. Pennant Street
522. Hastings Street
523. Gilmore Street
524. Cromwell Street

525. Broomlea Street
526. Oliver Street
527. Berwick Street
528. Ethel Street
529. Edgar Street
530. Mount Street
531. Foresbank Avenue
532. Greenhill Avenue
533. Crichton Street
534. Prospect Bank
535. Shetland Street

The first street I walked up was Beresford Street.  It took me most of the way up the hill, completing the side streets and having a rest near the top.  The view looking back down Beresford Street does not show how steep it felt when walking up. 

As I walked along Hastings Street I was able to stop and look back over parts of Dunedin that I have already walked.  It is good to think that every thing I could see from here I have already walked.

After walking most of the way up the hill, I headed back down to the bottom to complete some for streets.  I had a good view of the church in Kaikorai Valley as I walked my way around the streets towards the church.  There has been a church here since 1868 although the one standing today is the third church built in 1906 on the same site as the others before it.  

After walking past the church, I was walking back up the hill on Taieri Road. I turned off Taieri Road onto more side streets.  The walking was easy as I walked back and forth along the flat streets on the top of the hill.  The views looking out over the city are great looking as far as the harbour and the hills of the peninsula.

There was a number of things that I noticed on my walk today.  The first was this address sign for Hastings Drive which is a private driveway off Hastings Street.  And there is this very happy Otago letterbox. 

There is also this hedge that I walked around and did not notice how it had been cut until I stopped to look back at it. Someone has put quite a bit of thought and effort into cutting it. 

And finally I stopped for a look at this bus stop.  I am enjoying all the painted bus stops that I have found on my walks. I really like how they are painted to represent the communities that they are in and this one has Mount Cargill on the back wall.  You can see Mount Cargill from almost anywhere in the greater Dunedin area and I've often thought that you can never lost in Dunedin if you can see Mount Cargill.

Distance walked:  9.3 km      Walking time  1 hr 49 mins    

Total distance: 336.5 km       Total walking  63 hr 19 mins