Yesterday I walked to the top of Mt Victoria in the rain. It’s a fair climb – took me half an hour to reach the top.
Today I had a flat walk planned, around Oriental Bay, and Wellington pulled out one of its cracker winter days. So, as I walked, I got to look at views like this:
It was still slightly cool, but the harbour was completely calm, with a few wisps of mist drifting about. As I rounded the point toward Evans Bay, the whole glorious harbour opened up before me.
Weather like this brings out all the lunchtime runners, joggers and walkers. All sorts of ages, sizes, types of people, all going at different paces. As well as the fitness types, there are lots of people enjoying their lunch in the sun – office workers, family folk, construction crews et al.
There is one type of lunch-eater who fits in a slightly different category. These are chaps who sit in their cars to eat their lunch. I always assume they are Sales Reps – they all look like they’re driving company cars. If I were a more charitable soul, I would think it was lovely they had managed to grab some time out of their busy day to have a leisurely lunch in the lovely weather and gaze at our beautiful harbour.
But I know damn well they were actually thinking, “It’s a sunny day. I’m going round to Oriental Bay to watch the joggers”!
11 comments:
Wow, what a lovely place to walk.
That is one thing about Wellington, there are always so many people out when the sun is shining!
wow, what a lovely view!
Hope it is not my Sales Rep sitting in his car perving!! He told me it was a beautiful day down there today, but I didn't believe him since we had such crap up here, lol.
What a gorgeous day you had. Are you sure you get windy, rainy, 7 degree days??
Heh. I think there might be a tie-in between the Sales Reps and the story Zara recently linked to!
That looks like a great place to hang, walk or hey, just sit in cars and perve. How beautiful!
Yeap its days like those that make me so happy and proud to live in Wellington! :) Some of us from work are planning on doing that route (the Oriental Parade that is) on nice days so hopefully we get out there soon.
I want to move back to Wellington!!! Always love Oriental Parade.
I wish I could take a picture of my walk this morning to compare but the camera wouldn't show anything with all the fog and frost that was about. Enjoy the sunny days while you have them.
What better motivator than a view like that! I'm so envious over the shower at your workplace - if I had my own practice, that would definitely be on the 'must have' list. Hope your Friday is breezy-easy and leads into a great weekend :)
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