Our guide in Wellington, Robbie, took us all around the harbour shore. From the lookout on Mt Victoria we could see the airport. This is a tricky one for pilots. The runway is short and really large aircraft can't use it. The wind is pretty well always strong, but it varies in direction and speed quite a lot. You can find you-tube videos of some scary landings and take-offs from this airport. There are lots of small car parks around the harbour and from several of them we could see our ship. The hill behind the ship is the one that the cable car runs on; you can see photos we took from there in my November 2014 posts. Of course, harbours usually mean lighthouses. Across the harbour entrance we could see the two on Pencarrow Head that mark the northern harbour mouth. We saw these closer up on our last cruise, but the weather was too bleak to get better photos as we sailed out this time. On our side there was this small checker-board marked one at Point Halswell. This one marks the turn into the inner harbour. The area is a noted shell fishing ground and there have been several drownings of divers here. Needless to say, I wasn't given a chance to try the fishing.
Labels: boats, cruising, lighthouse, New Zealand
# posted by Bart Bear @ 2:44 pm
