Looking over Worser Bay from Seatoun Heights tonight, just after sunset.
Tangled in Breaker Bay, Wellington.
My favourite bit of Seatoun forest, on the Eastern Walkway. Mix two parts horror film w. one ‘get off the road!’ Serve over pine cones.
Today’s Eastern Walkway view: Breaker Bay w. Bluebridge Ferry arriving…
Now I’m more worried about hubris than aesthetics. Massive great All Blacks sign, Miramar…
Late sun over Miramar just now…
Another in what seems to be becoming a series of late-sun-over-Seatoun-Heights photos; I’ve taken a number of images of this fence over the years (usually when I’m testing a camera) as there’s something about the overlapping pickets, the orderly lines, that just appeals to me when I walk by.
But, I don’t think I’d ever noticed it from this angle before. Guess I was walking the other way on Townsend Road for a change! That, and the late sun, made for a nice combination of colour and contrast - and you can really see the paint job on it, too. (Looks like one of mine!)
Eastern walkway part 3 - detail of a mushroom on the trail, using macro mode on the Fuji X100. I’ve never seen mushrooms like these - except in Tintin, of course…
Part II of the Eastern Walkway - this is the view once you’re out of the spiky forest.
At this point you’ve got the option of heading down the hill to Seatoun (and up again over Breaker Bay, if you like), or hanging a right and running along the hillside towards the Ataturk Memorial. Well, when I say running, I mean the path runs that way - walking’s a much nicer option.
Just up the road from where I live & work is this lovely bit of forest on what’s called the Eastern Walkway - these being Wellington’s eastern suburbs, though to be honest I never have any idea which way is north in this town. (Unless there’s a howling northerly raging through, then I’ve got a rough idea.)
Anyway, this has always been one my favourite little walks - you disappear into this for a brief walk, and suddenly it’s all a bit spiky and spooky. Of course it’s not a huge forest, and you’re back to sweeping views of Breaker Bay a few minutes later; but it’s deeply cool while it lasts.
(And a little bit of Alien Skin Exposure 3 makes it all the more freaky. I keep waiting for the winged monkeys to appear…)
