Tuesday, August 1, 2023

THE TOWN BASIN AND CATERPILLARS

Once again we were lucky with the weather for the Parkinson walk and walked around the Loop at the Town Basin.  We started near The Warehouse and walked across Te Matau a Pohe bascule bridge.  The reflection was lovely although the tide was extremely low.




Further around, the boats looked good in the sunshine with the Hundertwasser dome in the background.





We stopped next to the Hundertwasser building for morning tea with a shorter walk back to our cars.

The whole walk is 4.2 kms. 

When we got home I noticed some Monarch caterpillars so collected them to put in the cage.  Not sure how many I ended up with but a lot.  This is just a few of them.  (This week we have been having our coldest weather so far this winter. Down to 4°C in the mornings.)




8 comments:

  1. That's a beautiful marina. In Brighton they built ours miles out of town; they should have built it in the middle where it would have become the hub of the town.

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  2. I'm surprised you still have caterpillars. I'm sure all ours have disappeared now, with the cold and the wet, although I still do see the occasional monarch floating by when the sun shines.

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    1. We were really surprised to find them. There would have been a dozen at least.

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  3. What a beautiful-looking day for your walk.

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    1. Even though the weather has been shocking this year we have been lucky on Monday's for our Parkinson's walks except this week when we cancelled due to rain and a strong wind warning.

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