Day One Hundred West Harbour

Time for an evening walk and back to finish walking the streets named after New Zealand birds along the west side of the harbour.  I walked 8 streets tonight.

1335. Robin Lane
1336. Ruru Avenue
1337. Stevenson Lane
1338. Tui Street
1339. Weka Street
1340. Wren Lane
1341. Takahe Terrace
1342. St Leonards Drive

By following the old road to Port Chalmers there is very little traffic and the views from  are pretty.  I could hear a lot of traffic on the faster highway below me but there were no cars on this part of the less used St Leonards Drive.

As I walked further around St Leonards Drive, I was able to look down on the highway with the railway line beside the road and the harbour entrance in the distance.

Of course the streets beside the harbour climb the side of the hill and I need to walk up and then down each street as they do not join at the top. 

And while the residents in this area need to negotiate steep, narrow streets each day, they are rewarded with fantastic views of the harbour and the hills of the peninsula. I was quite happy to have a rest at the top of each street to catch my breath and admire the view.

 

One of the good things about walking every street in Dunedin is that I come across unexpected views in places that I had never been before.  The views of St Leonards Park from this angle is one of those unexpected rewarding views of the peninsula hills and harbour cone with it's distinctive triangle shape.

 

There was one interesting letterbox on my walk today.  This one with the giraffe is cute and I wondered if it was called Harold. 

I walked past this cute house nailed to a fence between the road and highway.  It almost looks like a bird house but there are no openings for the birds and I am unsure why it has been placed on the fence.

I thought it was time to share another map.  The map shows only a small number of streets that I have walked with those streets that I have walked highlighted in red.  Currently I am walking the streets down the left side of the harbour. 

 

Distance walked:  4.1 km         Walking time  50 mins   

 
Total distance: 822.7 km          Total walking  154 hr 23 mins