Day Three Andersons Bay

For today's effort I decided to start where I finished yesterday which meant starting in Tomahawk Road in Andersons Bay.  It also meant that today that there would be a lot more climbing as I was now walking streets on the hill.  Today I walked 14 streets.

10. Gloucester Street
11. Spencer Street
12. Stirling Street
13. Oakland Street
14. Hunt Street
15. Duckworth Street
16. Puketai Street
17. Darnell Street
18. Jeffery Street
19. Kinvig Street
20. Heath Street
21. Sunbury Street
22. Woodside Terrace

23. Merchiston Street

I also walked part of Silverton Street and part of Highcliff Road but I'm not counting these streets until I have completed them. 

It was good to walk along Glochester Street first as it overlooks Ocean Grove and gave me good views of where I had walked yesterday.  

 

 

From Glochester Street it was easy to 'tick' off  a number of streets as Spencer, Stirling, Oakland, Hunt and Duckworth Streets are horizontal to each other and it was reasonably quick to walk up one and down the other.  

 

As I mentioned yesterday, walking the streets means that you notice things that you would otherwise miss and today I noticed this letterbox which was a miniature of the house it belonged to.  

The second half of my walk was a little harder as I was walking down then up the hill.  First I followed Jeffery, then Kinvig and Heath Street down the hill before working my way back up via Sunbury Street.  

One of the benefits of walking the streets on the hill, is that it gives me a chance to see Dunedin from different angles and today I had another good view over the city, this time from Merchiston Street. 

Distance walked: 8.2km     Walking time 1hr  33mins    

Total distance: 18.1km       Total walking 3 hr 22 mins  

Day Two Ocean Grove

Today I decided to start my journey further from home and looking at the map, Ocean Grove looked like a good place to start as it would be a suburb that will be completed in one circuit.  I was rewarded on today's circuit with a number of great views. 

Five streets were completed today.

5. Tomahawk Road (to Centre Road)
6. Oregon Street
7. Lombardy Street
8. Luke Street
9. Minto Street

Tomahawk Road is a quite a long street and has good places to see Tomahawk Lagoon, which is home to black swan, stilts, ducks and eels.  Most of the lagoon shore borders private property but you can take the driveway off Oregon Street which is signposted and is public access to the recreation reserve beside the lagoon. Tomahawk lagoon is one of Dunedin's hidden secrets and is a great spot to bird watch or follow the track around the lagoon and up 41-peg track to the Soldiers Monument on the top of the hill, off Highcliff Road.  

Walking the streets gives you time to notice things that you'd not otherwise notice and at the corner of Oregon and Lombardy Streets is the largest Aloe Vera plant I have seen!

Included in today's walk was an unnamed street at the corner of Tomahawk and Centre Road.  This unnamed street is part of a new sub-division and while it is not part of the streets of Dunedin yet, no doubt it will be one day when the sections are sold and houses are built.  On my way towards Centre Road, I was rewarded with views over Tomahawk Beach that are worth a  rest stop on the way up the hill. 

 

Today's walk included Minto Street whose residents are rewarded with with great views over Tainui and St Kilda. 

Distance walked: 6.1km     Walking time 1hr  7mins  

Total distance: 9.9km       Total walking 1 hr 49 mins