the long way home
another in our series of long city walks, today we did the “go the distance” walk along the wellington harbour, and then extended it by walking the rest of the way home via the southern coast. 16.93 km (10.52 miles)…
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city to sea – aea ot ytic
today we completed the longest and most challenging of the wellington city walks – the city to sea. 19.8km (12.3 miles) along the western ridge line from parliament to the southern coast. except we did in reverse starting at our…
her majesty’s park
today we went for a tramp at queen elizabeth park along the western shore about a hour north of wellington. we didn’t see the queen – but i’m guessing that she’s a bit harder to spot in her tramping gear.…
south central park
not the south part of central park – but a southern central park. wellington has it’s own dog friendly small urban central park that has just been completed a rehab, so today we all went for a short tramp. gromit…
southern walkway
today was the first of our big city tramps – the southern walkway. 12km (75 miles) from island bay to oriental bay along the eastern ridge. out starting point is shortland park, in island bay next to the coast. the…
i blame george
less than 24 hours until george w is on his way back to a retirement filled with brush clearing, so i’m taking this last chance to blame him for an troubling miscarriage of justice. in our previous visits to new…
let’s have teriyaki, make that taranaki for lunch
today we went on a tramp on mt taranaki. the day started out cold and drizzling, but we decided to head to trailhead and see if the weather cleared. when we arrived things were better, but knowing how extreme conditions…
up and over
[ed. i’ll be adding more commentary, but for now i’ll let the photos do the talking] today we did the tongariro alpine crossing. the crossing is a 18.5km (11.5 mile) tramp through the tongariro national park that travels up and…
grrrr
great day today so i suggested we go to the zoo. looking at the google map it didn’t look that far so i proposed we walk. the trouble started almost immediately. on all maps melbourne road is a nice straight…