Day 119 Company Bay

Today I continued to walk streets further down the peninsula and walked the streets in Company Bay, Mission Cove and Cosy Dell.  I walked 16 streets.

1611. Luss Road
1612. Lauder Street
1613. Raynbird Street
1614. Glenfinlass Street
1615. Brenton Street
1616. Hinkley Terrace
1617. McLelland Street
1618. Porterfield Street
1619. Kellas Street
1620. Gorman Street
1621. Ngaio Street
1622. Bewley Avenue
1623. Bayne Terrace
1624. Mission Cove
1625. Castlewood Road
1626. McTaggart Street

 

The plan for today's streets seemed to be up and so I started at the edge of the harbour with the first street I walked taking me up the hill.  It rose steeply quite quickly.  Of course as I walked up, I took a rest stop to see the view of the harbour opening up.

And the higher I walked, the better the view became.  The residents of the houses on these streets get amazing views looking down the harbour towards the city.

And if I thought the streets weren't steep enough, they became so steep that they were sealed in concrete.  Concrete is used when it is too steep for asphalt to be used.  I have walked a few concrete streets around the city but this was something I was not expecting here.

Where ever I walked today, I was rewarded with wonderful views.  That is one of the good things about walking streets on the hills - the views! 

And then there were times that I was able to look across to the streets where I had been walking earlier in the day.  It is fair to say that I was surprised by how steep some of these streets are. 

Next thing I knew, I was back walking down near the harbour.  From here I was able to look across to Macandrew Bay where I had walked yesterday. 

The harbour is popular for recreation.  During my walking today, I saw lots of cyclists and walkers using the harbour cycle/walkway and on the water I saw a number of kayakers, paddle boarders and small sailboats.  This is a group of stand up paddle boarders.

I walked past this bus shelter painted with the likeness of John Noakes who lived in Broad Bay (the next bay around).  John Noakes spent  years painting murals on bus shelters around the city.  I have walked past many of the bus shelters that he painted and have featured them in this blog. John Noakes died in 2006 but not before he had painted 65 bus shelters.

 

And this is one of the bus shelters painted by John Noakes that I walked past today.

Something unusual that I walked past today was this Donald Duck sign.  I am not sure why it has been put there but it looks like it's been there for a while.

Another unusual thing that I walked past today was this huge wooden chair, positioned to take in the view looking across the harbour.  The large chair is near the top of one of the steep streets that I walked up today and was a good place for a rest.

 

 

I walked past a couple of interesting letterboxes today.  I really liked the letters on one of the letterboxes because they were made from Oamaru Stone and I thought the house letterbox looked fun.  I wondered if the people painted in the windows of the house represented the people who live at the house that the letter box belongs to. 

 This map shows the streets in red that I have walked.  On the left side of the harbour is Macandrew Bay and Company Bay where I have been walking the last couple of days and on the left side of the harbour are streets that I have walked a few weeks ago.

 Distance walked:  9.6 km         Walking time  1 hr 53 mins    

Total distance: 986.9  km          Total walking  184 hr 26 mins