Despite being a bit misty and rain threatening, I decided to walk some more streets today. The views are not as good as they could have been because of the mist. I walked 12 streets today.
683. Craig Hendry Street
684. Morris Street
685. Davies Street
686. Mulford Street
687. Bell Crescent
688. Roy Crescent
689. Thoreau Street
690. Samson Road
691. Morton Street
692. Mary Street
693. Stevenson Road
Today I decided to avoid the busy city streets that I have been walking the past week and headed off to walk streets in Concord, at the other end of town. I started in Orr Street and walked up Stevenson Road to where it joins Corstorphine Road. This is where I had finished walking on Day Eighteen of my challenge. Stevenson Road is a bit unusual in that it has houses on one side and, despite being in the city, has paddocks on the other side.
The large area of paddocks divides Corstorphine and Concord and has a 'for sale' sign so one day it might become a new subdivision for housing. At the moment it is a nice break between the houses and the residents get a nice outlook.
After turning off Stevenson Road, I walked part of Mulford Street and then onto Craig Hendry Street which has a large triangle of open grass at the end. The residents of Craig Hendry Street have a good view looking over towards Corstorphine (in the mist)
If the weather had been better, the views would have been better. Despite the mist, I could still see down the hill to Kaikorai Valley where I had been walking on Day Twenty Seven of my challenge.
I followed Mulford Street from the top of the hill down to the bottom and was rewarded with good views looking down to the Southern Motorway. Being early Saturday morning, the motorway wasn't very busy but I imagine there would be a lot of traffic noise at times.
Rounding the corner from Mulford Street to Morton Street gives a good view of the motorway as it comes down the hill from Lookout Point. It is a good place to see where the open farmland divides the two housing areas of Corstorphine and Concord.
As I walked back up the hill to Orr Street, where I had started my walk, I walked past the Emerson Street Reserve. It is a large playground and sports fields surrounded by houses and it gave me a chance to look over the streets that I had walked this morning.
There were a couple of interesting things I saw on my walk today. The first is the Shaky Lane street sign. It's not a legal DCC street sign but is one that the residents of the lane have put there themselves. I am not sure why it is called Shaky Lane. The other is the 'Beware of the Dog' sign on the letterbox, it's a neat twist on the usual beware of the dog sign. It gave me a good chuckle as I walked past.
I walked past one painted telephone cabinet today. It has the word 'compassion' under the cow and sheep and is not far from the Burnside Freezing Works which opened in 1883. It was one the major industrial establishments in the Green Island/Concord area until it closed in 2008.
Distance walked: 9.8 km Walking time 1 hr 50 mins
Total distance: 435.8 km Total walking 82 hr 06 mins
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