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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Walks

Walks.

Walking has always been a favourite exercise for the strong and healthy of Wellington; and, indeed, most reasonably so, for the conditions which conduce to the full enjoyment of a good walk are uniformly abundant. The air is bracing, the hills are accessible, the scenery is rugged and grand, and the views from the hill - tops are delightful. Space cannot be spared to describe all the enjoyable walks in and around the City. They are numerous and splendid. It is within the truth to say that not two in every hundred of the inhabitants of Wellington are acquainted with an appreciable number of them. Most of them are too hard for ladies; but for men with an average strength of lungs, limbs, and boots, there is practically no limit to the variety of walks over the hills and among the dales near Wellington. “Round the Rocks,” as the way to Oriental Bay and Roseneath is called, is decidedly the most popular promenade in the City. On a fine Sunday, hundreds of couples and small parties are to be met there. Saturday afternoons are spent round there by walking, cycling, fishing, and boating parties. There are several boat-houses where good boats may be hired at the very cheap rate of eighteenpence for the first hour and a shilling per additional hour. The harbour is at almost any time perfectly safe for pulling-boats; but when sails are used by inexperienced parties, the very utmost care is needed, as very sudden puffs are occasionally met with in all parts of the harbour. It is never absolutely safe to tie the sheet of a small sailing boat. Scores have been drowned in the Wellington harbour through that act of folly.

Oriental Bay.

Oriental Bay.