Day Ninety Eight Allanton, Momona & Outram

Today I decided to walk the streets of another three suburbs on the outskirts of the city.  I walked 29 streets today.

1297. Peel Street
1298. Ralston Street
1299. Grey Street
1300. Bardsey Street
1301. Precelly Street
1302. Ramsey Street
1303. Snowdon Street
1304. Caernarvon Street
1305. Hay Street
1306. Douglas Street
1307. Stack Street
1308. Castleton Street
1309. Ward Street
1310. Trigg Street
1311. Trent Street
1312. Holyhead Street
1313. Mountfort Street
1314. Franks Place
1315. Bidston Street
1316. Orme Street
1317. Railway Lane
1318. Bell Street
1319. Beaumaris Street
1320. Formby Street
1321. Rodeo Place
1322. Three Kings Court
1323. Lynas Street
1324. Skerries Street
1325. Hoylake Street

I started walking the streets in Allanton today which is a small township at the turnoff to the Dunedin Airport from State Highway One. I was surprised at the number of small hills that I walked up and down in Allanton

 

I have driven past Allanton many times but I had never walked it's streets before today and I found it be a pretty township with lots of green trees and shrubs. 

While there are quite a few houses in Allanton, there are paddocks alongside most houses which seem to have a few sheep or other farm animals. 

After walking the streets in Allanton, I moved onto the streets of Momona.  Momona is a small township on the edge of the Dunedin Airport and built on airport land.  There are three streets in Momona and they are all named after RNZAF airmen who received the Victoria Cross

The streets of Outram are wide, straight and flat with the hill of Maungatua behind it.  The name Maungatua is Maori and means 'Hill of the Spirits'.  

There is a lot of flat farmland surrounding Outram and the township is growing with new streets and new houses being built.  Today I walked a number of these new streets.

 

The streets of Outram run in a grid and I found that I needed to keep track of which streets that I had walked or I would miss completing some of them.  With the township being flat about the only hill I could see was Maungatua which dominated the view South.   

As Outram is close to the Taieri River, along one side runs the floodbank which protects the township when the river floods. Built around 1986, access to the floodbank is from the ends of some of the streets.

While there is no vehicle access on the floodbank, there is a walking track that is a popular walk, taking in farmland on one side and houses on the other. 

I walked past some interesting letterboxes today.  My favourite of the day is the Minion which is as large as a child. 

I saw quite few different animals during my walk today.  Apart from disturbing lots of dogs, I saw horses, sheep, a goat, pigs and two alpacas.

Distance walked:  14.5 km         Walking time  2 hr 47 mins   

 
Total distance: 810.8 km          Total walking  152 hr 07 mins