Saturday, March 13, 2021

Day Thirty Nine Wakari

 Today I had another lovely, sunny day for walking the streets. I walked 21 streets and today is a milestone with having walked over 500 streets. 

498. Munro Street
499. Butler Street
500. Burt Street
501. Rosebank Avenue
502. Chapman Street
503. Cohen Place
504. Craighall Crescent
505. Dale Street
506. Kinsman Street
507. Mardale Street
508. Font Street
509. Wright Street
510. Walton Street
511. School Street
512. Tyne Street
513. Oban Street
514. Dunblane Street
515. Sargood Street
516. Wales Street
517. Fairfax Street
518. McMillan Street

I started my walk by going downhill then straight back up which seemed to be the theme of my walking today - down then up, back down then up again.  I walked down Lynn Street past the sports fields of Balmacewan Intermediate and then up the hill after the sports fields.

Once past Balmacewan Intermediate I was able to connect back up with Balmacewan Road where I had been walking yesterday, then it was back down Lynn Street and I was able to look back at streets I had walked recently. 

One of the benefits of walking on the hills is the views.   I am always happy to stop and look back to where I have come from (past the round about) and also to see all the streets that I still have to walk (everything behind the round about). 

I was able to join up some streets onto Kaikorai Valley Road where I had finished walking a couple of weeks ago.I have walked everything on the left of Kaikorai Valley Road but I have not walked any of the streets on the right.

Once I was onto walking Tyne Street I was able to look over to Wakari and see some of the streets I had walked earlier today but most of what I could see are streets that I have not been to yet. I also enjoyed the view of Flagstaff again.  Flagstaff is the hill behind the houses. 

The area I walked today has a number of quiet green spaces that are worth exploring further.  I passed the community garden which I will need to visit another time and the Kaikorai Reserve which has been developed into a lagoon/wetlands area.  Again I didn't have the time to stop and explore further but I will be making a return visit soon. 


I also passed the Craighall Crescent Recreation Reserve hidden on Craighall Crescent which is one of over a hundred reserves within the Dunedin City boundary.

Today I walked past Columba College which is a high school established in 1915 by the Presbyterian Church as a boarding and day school for girls.  Parts of the school date back to it's start with impressive stone buildings.



Distance walked:  10.8 km      Walking time  2 hr 2 mins    

Total distance: 327.2 km       Total walking  61 hr 30 mins

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