Day Sixty Seven Wharf

 Today I completed the streets behind the railway station, around the wharf where I had been walking a couple of days ago.  I walked 5 streets.

830. Ward Street

831. Ward Street Overbridge
832. Halsey Street
833. Bauchop Street
834. Sturdee Street
835. Wickliffe Street

From the wharf area, there are good views of the city skyline with Flagstaff behind the city and the ridge leading to Mount Cargill.  

The area around the wharf is flat and industrial businesses and warehouses.  The part that I walked today was nearer the wharf where the large ships dock.  I walked past the logging port with all the logs stacked up like tooth picks.  

And I walked past the Ward Street Power Substation.  This was the second substation built in Dunedin in 1938 and the historic building has been preserved as an example of art deco industrial architecture.  The substation was replaced in 2010 with  modern, larger capacity equipment making the building obsolete.

While the substation no longer houses the power equipment, it has been preserved with a series of interpretive panels inside, describing the history and workings.  As the building remains inside the live, high voltage grounds of the substation, it is cannot be opened to the public. 

Today I walked past two very nice pieces of public art.  On the building wall opposite the inter-city bus depot is the this large scale map of Dunedin.  

And just along the road is this equally impressive mural with a girl over the harbour reaching out to the sea gulls and kereru.

Distance walked:  4.5  km         Walking time   48 mins  

 

Total distance: 538.4 km       Total walking  101 hr 02 mins