Day 122 Portobello

I am nearing the end of my challenge to walk every street in Dunedin and tonight I walked all the streets in Portobello.  I walked 17 streets tonight.

1649. Tree Top Drive
1650. Sherwood Street
1651. Blackwell Street
1652. Hereweka Street
1653. Geary Street
1654. Ridley Road
1655. 1663Seaton Road
1656. Beaconsfield Road
1657. Densem Street
1658. Arnott Street
1659. Ryan Street
1660. Moss Street
1661. Nicholas Street
1662. Landreth Street
1663. McAuley Road
1664. Hatchery Road
1665. Allans Beach Road

Like many suburbs and streets in Dunedin, Portobello is named after a location in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Portobello has a number of streets that are surrounded by farmland.

Harbour Cone can be seen from many of the streets in Portobello.  The aptly named Harbour Cone is part of the hills that form the long extinct Dunedin Volcano.  There is a walking track that goes from sea level to the top of the cone. 

 

As I walked further up the streets that climbed towards Harbour Cone, the views started to open up.  I could see that it looked like rain on the other side of the harbour but it was dry where I was walking.

This is the closest I got to Harbour Cone, although if I had kept walking up the road for quite a few more kilometres, I would have gotten closer but this is where I turned down Seaton Street.

Seaton Street took me down  to the harbours edge.  It was a good street to walk down as I had great views looking across the habour all the way down the street.

 

And before I knew it, I was back beside the water of the habour.  The combined cycle/walkway continues around the harbour from the city and this is where I will be walking tomorrow.

But in the meantime, I turned around and walked back up the hill via another street.  This time my view was harbour cone which towers above Portobello.

 

Finally I was able to walk down the hill for the last time.  A lot of the streets in Portobello have views of the harbour. 

Then I followed a street around the side of the hill which took me back to the township where the shops are and back to where I had started my walk.  This is a popular place for day trippers from the city.

My final view of Harbour Cone is with the Portobello Hotel in front.  The hotel was built in 1874 and has been operating continously as a hotel since.

 

This building is Roy's Store and was one of two shops operating in Portobello in the early 1900's  the unusual corner of the building is where the door to the shop used to be.

 

An unusual piece of art that I walked past today is this old boat that has been filled with plants and resides on a bank on the side of the road. 

 

I walked past the Happy Hens premises.  Happy Hens is a Dunedin business that has been making happy hens for more than 35 years.  Each hen is hand made and painted with happy hens being sold around the world. 

I walked past one very nicely painted cabinet.  It has the hills of the peninsula and Harbour Cone painted on it. 

While walking the streets tonight, I walked past a few interesting letterboxes.  The first looked a bit like a lopsided house with moss growing on it and the second was an ammunition can.

I thought that you would get a lot of mail in the wine barrel and someone had a bright a cheerful letterbox with elves painted on it.

Distance walked:  7.2 km         Walking time  1 hr 23 mins    

Total distance: 1006.6  km          Total walking  188 hr 13 mins