New Zealand is in Lockdown Alert Level 4 which is our highest level of restrictions due to an outbreak of Covid 19 in the community. It means that I am only allowed to exercise locally. I have not walked the streets close to home as I had thought if NZ was to go into Lockdown, then I would be able to continue my walking the streets of Dunedin. Today I walked 3 streets
983. Pine Hill Road
984. Maxwellton Street
985. Patmos Avenue
I started my walk by walking up the hill towards Mt Cargill from my home. It only takes about 10 minutes walking to reach farmland and the views of the city really start to open up. It was a good feeling looking at this view knowing that I have walked every street that I could see.
As I walked around the hill I was rewarded with a view of Pine Hill which is where I live. I still need to walk these streets but with Lockdown, these will be the next streets that I will be walking.
As I started walking down the hill to Leith Valley I crossed over a bridge that goes over the Northern Motorway. This is State Highway One and is the main road to get into the city from the North. Normally this is a very busy road but as we are in Lockdown and the only travel allowed is for essential services (e.g. food and medicine) there was very little traffic.
On my walk I caught a glimpse of the magnificent house built by Dunedin's first bishop. This house is huge and was built in the 1880's by the the first Bishop of Dunedin who lived here for 50 years and raised a family of five children.
At the entrance to the property once owned by the first Bishop is the gatehouse which is, itself, a beautiful home. The gatehouse is much smaller that the main house.
Spring is definitely in the air and it was wonderful to walk past these trees covered in beautiful blossom. I have walked past these trees before back in April when they were losing their leaves.
And finally I walked back up the hill towards home by walking up Pine Hill Road, and over the bridge over George Street which is the main street of Dunedin. As it is Lockdown, the streets are very quiet with no traffic today.
It might seem a strange photo but this fence is a new fence, only a few weeks old, that replaced a very old fence that ran up the side of the road. This is a much nicer and safer fence.
Looking over the side of the fence part, I could see that road has been built up with most of the road not actually on the ground but suspended on a bridge.
On my walk today I walked past a number of these traps which are part of the Halo Project. The Halo Project maintains a number of predator traps to protect the native wildlife. There are a variety of traps for possum, stoats and rats around the fringes of the city that are regularly checked by volunteers
To show that half my walk was past farmland on the edge of the city, here are some of the farm animals that I walked past today.
I walked past this lovely stone fence built from the stones that the farmer cleared from his paddocks. This is a very old style way of making a fence but this fence is only a few years old.
I walked past these two letterboxes. One is painted with a kereru (NZ wood pigeon) and the other is shaped like a man going walkabout.
Lastly is this painted telephone cabinet that I walked past today.
Distance walked: 10.4 km Walking time 1 hr 55 mins
Total distance: 641.8 km
Total walking 119 hr 42 mins
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