Day Ninety Evansdale & Warrington

My plan was to walk the streets of the townships/suburbs north of Dunedin today and I walked four townships - Evansdale, Warrington, Seacliff and Karitane.  In this blog I will concentrate on the streets I walked in Evansdale and Warrington, and my next blog will cover the streets of Seacliff and Karitane.  I walked 18 streets.

1163. King Street
1164. Jones Road
1165. Bank Road
1166. View Street
1167. Bay Road
1168. Esplanade 
1169. Church Road
1170. Watson Street
1171. Ferguson Street
1172. Park Road
1173. Hill Road
1174. The Terrace
1175. Station Road
1176. The Crescent
1177. Stephenson Street
1178. Couper Street
1179. Perry Street
1180. Porteous Road

 

Today Evansdale was the first stop on my challenge to walk every street in Dunedin.  There is not much at Evansdale apart from farmland, two streets, a handful of houses and a hotel but Evansdale is part of Dunedin which means that I need to walk it's two streets.  One of the streets gives a good view of the State Highway One as it heads up the hill called the Kilmog.

From Evansdale, I moved onto walking the streets of Warrington.  Warrington is a small seaside township within the Dunedin City boundaries.  The streets seem to all lead towards the sea which is not surprising as Warrington has a lovely beach that is popular with families.

Warrington beach is a sandspit and on one side of the beach is Blueskin Bay. I was able to look across the bay to Waitati where I was walking streets yesterday.  Mt. Cargill is the hill in the middle of the picture in thedistance and the city of Dunedin is on the other side of Mt. Cargill.

By walking along the road towards the beach, I came to the Warrington Domain which sits behind the sand dunes of the beach and is a popular place for families during the summer. There is also freedom camping available at the domain. 

After leaving the domain, it was up a small hill which gave me good views of the beach. It is early spring and with the temperature still being a little cold, there was very few people on the beach today.

As I walked away from the beach I had views of the hills surrounding Warrington.  There is also a lot of new houses being built in Warrington. 

The railway line passes through Warrington with part of the township on either side.  It doesn't seem to matter where you live in Warrington as most houses seem to have a view of the sea or Blueskin Bay.

Known locally as the  'Flying Saucer house', this Futuro house was on display at the 1974 Commonwealth Games, it was then bought and moved to it's present site at the entrance to Warrington  in 1975.  Apparently there are 8 Futuro houses in New Zealand and this is the only one that I have seen.

Like the Flying Saucer house, this hedge is a bit of an icon in Warrington.   A loving husband trimmed the words 'I Love Lois' into his macrocarpa hedge in 2002 as a loving gesture to his wife. The tradition has been carried on to this day, nearly 20 years later.

I did not see any interesting letterboxes during my walk in Warrington or Evansdale today but I did see this unique birdhouse that has been carved out of a large tree stump using a chainsaw. 

 And lastly I have included a map of Warrington with the streets that I have walked in red. 

Distance walked:  5.9  km         Walking time  1 hr 2 mins  

Total distance: 728.9 km          Total walking  136 hr 36 mins