A 10km walk "around the block"
With many of our friends tackling multi day walks like The Kepler, Heaphy and Waikarimoana Tracks we are conscious of needing to get more hills into our walking. So this Wellington Anniversary weekend we took a walk around the block - as Steve called it. From home we walked through the school, up and over Jubilee Road then up to join the Piwakawaka track from the trig / reservoir (more up from the Punjab Street entrance) before walking the historic track to Old Porirua Rd. The Piwakawaka track is only 1.2km long, Mike tells me it's maintained by volunteers which explains how overgrown and scrubby it is, barely more than a goat track in places with many foliage covered steps. From there we walked down Old Porirua Road, up the start of Ngaio Gorge and into Trelissick Park following, in part, the Northern Walkway route. I can see why the munchkins call it the dog park, there were many happy dogs in the stream. After all this downhill and flat it was time for climbing again - my si