Chalmers Track and Mount Pleasant Summit

2009. Linwood Avenue view of Mt Pleasant & Mt Cavendish, Port Hills, Christchurch

One cloudy and cool Sunday morning, I parked beside Linwood Avenue to coolpix Mt Pleasant, Mt Cavendish and the Tors, as I intended climbing Mt Pleasant (499m) that afternoon.


2009. Summit Road, Port Hills view of Avon-Heathcote Estuary, Christchurch &Pegasus Bay


2009. Summit Road view of Avon-Heathcote Estuary, Christchurch & hazy Canterbury Plains


2009. Mt Pleasant-Mt Cavendish Saddle view of Lyttelton & Diamond Harbour. Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley covered by cloud

After driving up Mt Pleasant Road, I parked my car at Summit Road, Mt Pleasant-Mt Cavendish saddle, as I wanted to do a circular walk along Chalmers Track below Mt Cavendish and Mt Pleasant bluffs, then summit Mt Pleasant. From Summit Road, I coolpixed Christchurch and Canterbury Plains. Across the saddle, from the concrete roof of a WW2 guard hut I coolpixed Lyttelton and Banks Peninsula.


2009. Mt Pleasant-Mt Cavendish Saddle view of Mt Pleasant (499m)


2009. Major Hornbrook Track / Cavendish Bluffs Track Junction view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour & Mt Bradley


2009. Major Hornbrook Track view of Lyttelton & Diamond Harbour

2009. Major Hornbrook Track broom polluted view of Mt Pleasant


2009. Major Hornbrook Track view of Mt Pleasant


2009. Major Hornbrook Track view of Mt Cavendish (445m) with Gondola Station on top


2009. Major Hornbrook Track view of Mt Pleasant Bluffs



2009. Major Hornbrook Track / Chalmers Track Junction on the way down to Lyttelton. Hazy Mt Evans backdrop

For 10 minutes I walked down stony Major Hornbrook Track through native bush and broom pollution, with views of Mt Evans, The Monument, Mt Herbert ahead; views of Mt Pleasant bluffs on my left; views of Mt Cavendish ridge on my right.



2009 Confusing DOC Sign: Major Hornbrook Track / Chalmers Track Junction


2009. Chalmers Track broom polluted view of hazy Mt Evans


2009. Chalmers Track view of Mt Pleasant Bluffs


2009. Chalmers Track Wooden Gate & Stile

On the way down to Lyttelton, by a DOC sign at a track junction, I turned left down grassy Chalmers Track, marked by orange poles. Chalmers Track continue down through native bush and broom below Mt Cavendish and Mt Pleasant bluffs. With Mt Evans views ahead, I passed an open, wooden gate and stile beside a dry stream. Chalmers Track briefly followed a fence, till I came upon a curved-roofed, concrete building in a bushy gully beside ruins of old concrete and stone wall structures below a red valerian festooned cliff.


2009. Chalmers Track & Red Valerian Festooned Cliff


2009. Chalmers Track view of Cliff & Mt Cavendish


2009. Chalmers Track Red Valerian Polluted Ruins. Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Bradley behind


2009. Chalmers Track view of Lyttelton & Diamond Harbour. The Monument, Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley backdrop


2009. Chalmers Track view of Mt Cavendish

Looking back up Chalmers Track I had glorious views of Mt Cavendish Gondola Station and Mt Pleasant bluffs. Below sprawled Lyttelton suburbs down to the harbour. Chalmers Track turned left across an old stone culvert. I crossed a stile below two old oaks, and zigzagged up through more native bush, poroporo, broom and gorse, with views of Mt Evans ahead, Lyttelton below on my right, and Mt Cavendish bluffs behind.


2009. Chalmers Track view of Lyttelton, Mt Bradley, Quail Island & Gebbies Pass



2009. Chalmers Track view of Mt Cavendish & Major Hornbrook Track


2009. Chalmers Track broom polluted view of Lyttelton


2009. Chalmers Track, Broom & Poplars above Lyttelton


2009. Chalmers Track Native Bush view of some Mt Pleasant Bluffs


2009. Chalmers Track Poroporo & Broom


2009. Chalmers Track view of Lyttelton & hazy Port Hills


2009. Chalmers Track view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Bradley, Gebbies Pass, Quail Island


2009. Chalmers Track view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley, Gebbies Pass, Quail island


2009. Chalmers Track view of Mt Cavendish & some Mt Pleasant Bluffs


2009. Chalmers Track view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, The Monument, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley


2009. Chalmers Track view of Lyttelton & hazy Diamond Harbour


2009. Chalmers Track view of Lyttelton & Mt Evans


2009. Chalmers Track view of Broom, Native Bush & some Mt Pleasant Bluffs


2009. Chalmers Track view of a Bush Gully to climb up a Mt Pleasant Ridge


2009. Chalmers Track view of a Mt Pleasant Ridge above Lyttelton

Below Mt Pleasant bluffs, in open grassland I crossed another stile, and coolpixed Lyttelton below. Continuing below Mt Pleasant bluffs, I watched an Australian harrier soaring in the grey sky. A fantail fluttered across Chalmers Track into dark bush.


2009. Chalmers Track view of Broom & Native Bush below Mt Pleasant Bluffs


2009. Chalmers Track view of more Broom & more Native Bush below more Mt Pleasant Bluffs


2009. Another Chalmers Track view of Lyttelton, Mt Bradley, Quail Island & Gebbies Pass


2009. Chalmers Track view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Bradley & Quail Island

I strolled through a grove of kowhai, Sophora tetraptera, and at another grassy lookout above Lyttelton 2 men, 2 women and 4 dogs passed. "I walk slowly," I said. "I take lots of snaps." I watched 2 more women walking their dogs in Lyttelton.


2009. Chalmers Track view of Kowhai, Sophora tetraptera grove below Mt Pleasant Bluffs


2009. Chalmers Track view of Lyttelton, Quail island & Gebbies Pass


2009. Chalmers Track Gorse Pollution above Lyttelton

In more grassland below Mt Pleasant bluffs I passed yellow lupins, purple foxgloves and cabbage trees, Cordyline australis, wafting floral scent. By an old stone wall, I passed the last upper Lyttelton house in a bushy gully. At a break in the stone wall a DOC sign directed me up the bushy gully:

CHALMERS TRACK <->
MAJOR HORNBROOK TRACK <- 1.5 km / 40 min MT PLEASANT BLUFFS TRACK -> 700 m / 20 min


2pp9. Chalmers Track DOC Sign, Stone Wall & Bush Gully up a Mt Pleasant Ridge


2009. Chalmers Track Bush Gully up a Mt Pleasant Ridge


2009. Chalmers Track Gully view of hazy Port Hills


2009. Chalmers Track Gully view of Lyttelton & hazy Port Hills


2009. Chalmers Track Bush Gully view of Lyttelton & Port Hills


2009. Chalmers Track Gully view of Lyttelton & Port Hills


2009. Chalmers Track Stone Steps in Bush Gully

Up the gully track, I passed bluff caves on my left, and on my right more bluffs with glimpses of the old stone wall going up the steep slope. Heating up, I stripped off my jersey. Up the gully, I sweated up stone steps past ribbonwoods, Plagianthus regius, tree nettles, ferns, whiteywoods, tree fuchsias, some trees marked by orange plastic triangles. A male jogger squeezed past, going down. "Hi," he said.


2009. Chalmers Track Bush Gully Understorey


2009. Near top of Chalmers Track view of Lyttelton & Port Hills


2009. Chalmers Track Bush Gully view of Mt Pleasant Summit & Bluffs


2009. Near top of Chalmers Track Bush Gully view of Mt Pleasant & Mt Cavendish Ridges above Lyttelton. Port Hills Summit Road backdrop


2009. Near top of Chalmers Track Bush Gully view of Lyttelton & Governors Bay. Port Hills backdrop


2009. Top of Chalmers Track view of Lyttelton & Governors Bay. Port Hills backdrop

"Hi," I panted upwards, through more bush, past mossy rocks, and over roots, more stone steps, and leaf litter. Above gully bluffs, the track broke into tussockland on a Mt Pleasant northern slope, with cooling Lyttelton breezes on my back. On top of the grassy ridge, breezes from Evans Pass cooled me quickly. On my way up to Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery, by a ridge fence I passed another DOC sign stating:

MT PLEASANT BLUFFS TRACK <->
SUMMIT RD CARPARK <- 2 km /
1 h EVANS PASS -> 1 km / 30 min


2009. Confusing DOC Sign, top of Chalmers Track, doesn't mention Chalmers Track


2009. Mt Pleasant Ridge view of Mt Pleasant (499m) & Mt Cavendish (445m)


2009. Mt Pleasant Ridge view of Lyttelton, Governors Bay & Port Hills, with Bridle Path up middle distance ridge


2009. Mt Pleasant Ridge view of Lyttelton, Governors Bay & Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant Ridge view of Chalmers Track in Bush Gully above Lyttelton. Quail Island, Governors Bay, Port Hills backdrop

The DOC sign was confusing as it didn't show Chalmers Track below. It took me 1 hour 50 minutes to dawdle along Chalmers Track from Major Hornbrook Track junction to the ridge sign below Mt Pleasant WW2 AA Battery, with Evans Pass northwards, and Lyttelton, Governors Bay and Port Hills southwards. I would take another 2 hours to summit Mt Pleasant, and return to my car on Summit Road via Broadleaf Lane on the west side of Mt Pleasant summit.


2009. Mt Pleasant Ridge going down to Evans Pass. Purau, Diamond Harbour & cloudy Mt Evans & The Monument backdrop


2009. Mt Pleasant Ridge view of Lyttelton Harbour Mouth by Adderley Head


2009. Mt Pleasant Ridge view of Summit Road / Evans Pass Intersection, with Godley Head Road left. Lyttelton Harbour Mouth & Adderley Head backdrop


2009. Mt Pleasant Ridge view of Lyttelton, Charteris Bay, Quail Island, Head of the Bay, Governors Bay, Gebbies Pass & Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Mt Pleasant & Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Mt Pleasant Summit (499m)


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft battery view of Diamond Harbour, Charteris Bay & Gebbies Pass

I crossed a stile with views over Summit Road / Evans Pass intersection far below. At Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery, I counted 20 walkers passing through, myself included. Two blokes stood behind the WW2 command post wall, sheltering from the wind and looking at Lyttelton below.


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battey view of Mt pleasant Summit (499m) & Mt Cavendish Summit (445m)


2009. DOC Sign: Mt Pleasant WW11 3.7 inch Anti Aircraft Battery


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Cloudy Banks Peninsula


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Cloudy Mt Evans & The Monument


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Mt Evans & The Monument


2009. Mt Pleasant Summit Ridge view of Godley Head, Lyttelton Harbour Mouth & Adderley Head


2009. Mt Pleasant Summit Ridge view of Sumner, Scarborough & Lyttelton Harbour Mouth


2009. Mt Pleasant Summit Ridge view of Richmond Hill, Sumner & Scarborough


2009. Mt Pleasant Summit Ridge view of Windblown Trees above Summit Road & Richmond Hill

Thirteen walkers trudged up Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track, lugging heavy backpacks. They were overdressed in boots, longs, shirts / windcheaters, hats. Their leader waved his arms emphatically. After my gully climb, I was still cooling off, wearing slops, shorts, shirt.


2009. Mt Pleasant Summit Ridge, Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant Summit Ridge view of Port Hills & Crater Rim


2009. Walkers fresh off Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track, by a Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Gun Emplacement overlooking Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Quail Island & Gebbies Pass


2009. Walkers by a Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Gun Emplacement overlooking Diamond Harbour, Charteris Bay, Gebbies Pass & Quail Island

Beneath louring, grey clouds, I crossed a fence on my way up Mt Pleasant summit ridge. On my left I enjoyed Lyttelton, Port Hills and Banks Peninsula views. On my right, I saw Summit Road winding down to Mt Evans Pass. I saw Adderley Head and Godley Head by Lyttelton Harbour mouth. I saw Scarborough, Sumner, Pegasus Bay. I watched MTBs cycling through Greenwood Park above Summit Road.


2009. Mt Pleasant Summit Ridge Fence overlooking Lyttelton Harbour Mouth


2009. Mt Pleasant Summit Ridge Fence view of Mt Pleasant Summit (499m)


2009. Mt Pleasant Summit Ridge view of Lyttelton, Charteris Bay, Quail Island, Head of the Bay, Gebbies Pass, Governors Bay, Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant Summit Ridge zoom view of Richmond Hill, Sumner & Scarborough

2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery Pit view of Mt Evans & The Monument


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery Pit view of Lyttelton Harbour Mouth


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery Pit view of Avon-Heathcote Estuary, Southshore Spit & Pegasus Bay

A distance above the WW2 AA Battery I found an 8 m x 5 m concrete-walled pit, and wondered whether WW2 military had used it as a water cistern, or for waste? It reminded me of ancient water cisterns I'd seen at Masada, Israel in 1982.


2009. Mt Pleasant Summit Ridge view of Quail Island, Gebbies Pass & Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant Summit Ridge view of Clouds Over Lyttelton Harbour Mouth


2009. Mt Pleasant Summit Ridge view of Cloud Shadow on the Pacific beyond Richmond Hill, Sumner & Scarborough


2009. Windblown Trees below Mt Pleasant Summit. Christchurch backdrop


2009. Crater Rim below Mt Pleasant Summit, Port Hills

I trudged up trackless, soggy Mt Pleasant summit ridge, aiming for the two Telecom masts and geodetic beacon on Mt Pleasant summit. I pulled on my jersey, as the wind was numbing my fingertips. I'd been chilled by Mt Pleasant winds on another walk too, as Mt Pleasant was at the end of the Port Hills, with winds gusting up from Lyttelton Harbour on one side and Pacific the other.


2009. Mt Pleasant Crater Rim above a Mt Pleasant Ridge above Lyttelton & Diamond Harbour. Mt Evans & The Monument backdrop


2009. Mt Pleasant Crater Rim view of distant Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft battery on a ridge, with Lyttelton Harbour & Mt Evans beyond


2009. Mt Pleasant Summit Ridge zoom view of Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Gun Battery


2009. Mt Pleasant Crater Rim view of Lyttelton Harbour Mouth & the Pacific


2009. Mt Pleasant Summit Ridge view of Cloud Shadow on the Pacific, beyond Richmond Hill & Scarborough


2009. Mt Pleasant Summit Ridge View of Cloudy Avon-Heathcote Estuary & Pegasus Bay

On my way up, I zigzagged across the Crater Rim to look at Lyttelton and cloudy Banks Peninsula peaks on my left. On my right, I looked down Port Hills farm paddocks and reserves towards Redcliffs, Avon-Heathcote Estuary, Christchurch, Pegasus Bay, Canterbury Plains and cloudy Southern Alps.


2009. Geodetic Beacon & Two Telecom Masts on Mt Pleasant Summit, Port Hills


2009. Two Telecom Masts on Cloudy Mt Pleasant Summit, Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant Summit view of Shelterbelts Below Summit overlooking Christchurch


2009. Mt Pleasant Summit view of Summit Road winding past Avon-Heathcote Estuary Mouth towards Evans Pass


2009. Mt Pleasant Summit view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Charteris Bay, Quail Island & Gebbies Pass


After crossing a fence and greeting sheep in a summit paddock, I relaxed below Mt Pleasant summit beacon, with magnificent views of Lyttelton Harbour below and Banks Peninsula beyond. I texted Leah from Mt Pleasant summit, and wondered if the two Telecom masts were kauri wood?



With western views over Christchurch, Canterbury Plains and Southern Alps, I strolled down a dirt track through tussockland in Mt Pleasant Scenic reserve. I crossed a stile, and passed more sheep to pine and macrocarpa shelterbelts by farmhouses below Mt Pleasant summit. At the top of Broadleaf Lane, I passed through a farm gate with a Christchurch City Council sign stating:

PUBLIC ACCESS THROUGH
PRIVATE LAND
TO MT PLEASANT RESERVE
PLEASE KEEP TO ROAD


I walked down to Summit Road, and watched two women photographing themselves in John Britten Reserve. Another couple wandered down Kenton Track towards Mt Pleasant houses.



See Ribbonwood, Plagianthus regius (Te Ara)

Mount Pleasant Bluffs Track and Summit Road

Coolpix of a circular walk along Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track, part of Crater Rim Walkway, Port Hills, from Mt Pleasant-Mt Cavendish saddle on Summit Road, below Mt Pleasant summit bluffs to Mt Pleasant northern slopes, then return via Summit Road:


2009. Summit Road view of Heathcote Valley, Avon-Heathcote Estuary, Christchurch, Canterbury Plains, Mt Thomas (1)


2009. Crater Rim Walkway / Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track in Mt Pleasant-Mt Cavendish Saddle, going up to Mt Pleasant Summit (499m), Port Hills (2)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Mt Pleasant-Mt Cavendish Saddle & Summit Road Carpark (3)


2009. Mt Cavendish (445m) view of Port Hills (4)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton Harbour, Quail Island, Gebbies Pass, Port Hills (5)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton, Quail Island, Gebbies Pass, Port Hills (6)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, The Monument, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley (7)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track broom polluted view of Major Hornbrook Track & Bridle Path on Mt Cavendish slopes above Lyttelton. Quail Island, Gebbies Pass, Port Hills beyond (8)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track broom polluted view of Quail Island & Gebbies Pass (9)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track broom polluted view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley, Charteris Bay (10)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track broom polluted view of Lyttelton, The Monument, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley (11)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Major Hornbrook Track, Mt Cavendish (445m) & Port Hills (12)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Mt Cavendish Spurs, Lyttelton, Governors Bay, Port Hills (13)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton, Quail Island, Gebbies Pass, Port Hills (14)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Mt Cavendish Spurs, Governors Bay, Port Hills (15)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Radio Mast on Mt Pleasant Summit (499m), Port Hills (16)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Mt Pleasant-Mt Cavendish Saddle. Canterbury Plains beyond (17)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Mt Pleasant Summit Spur, Lyttelton, Quail Island, Port Hills (18)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton, Quail Island, Charteris Bay, Head of the Bay, Governors Bay, Gebbies Pass, Port Hills (19)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley, Charteris Bay (20)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton, Mt Evans, The Monument, Mt Herbert, Purau, Diamond Harbour (21)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Mt Evans. WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery seen on left skyline of Mt Pleasant northern slope (22)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track Cabbage Tree view of Lyttelton, Governors Bay, Port Hills (23)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton, Quail Island, Gebbies Pass, Port Hills (24)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley, Quail Island, Gebbies Pass (25)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Diamond Harbour, Mt Evans, The Monument, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley (26)


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Mt Pleasant Summit Bluffs. Governors Bay & Port Hills backdrop (27)


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track below Mt Pleasant Summit (499m). Port Hills backdrop (28)


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Mt Pleasant Summit (499m), Port Hills (29)


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Mt Pleasant Summit Bluffs, Lyttelton, Governors Bay, Port Hills (30)


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Mt Evans, The Monument, Mt Herbert (31)


2009. WW2 Anti Aircraft Gun emplacement (1 of 4) below Mt Pleasant Summit (499m). Mt Cavendish (445m) beyond (32)


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Gun Emplacements (2 of 4). Pegasus Bay beyond (33)


2009. Mt Pleasant view of Sumner, Scarborough, Pacific (34)


2009. Mt Pleasant view of Richmond Hill, Sumner, Scarborough, Pacific (35)


2009. Mt Pleasant Water Tank view of Richmond Hill, Sumner, Scarborough, Pacific (36)


2009. Summit Road view of Moncks Spur above Redcliffs & Avon-Heathcote Estuary. Christchurch, Pegasus Bay, Southern Alps backdrop (37)


2009. Summit Road view of Barnett Park, Redcliffs, Avon-Heathcote Estuary, Southshore Spit. Pegasus Bay (38)


2009. Summit Road view of John Britten Reserve above Heathcote Valley & Avoca Valley. Christchurch & Canterbury Plains beyond (39)


2009. Summit Road view of John Britten Reserve above Heathcote Valley & Christchurch CBD. Canterbury Plains beyond (40)


2009. Summit Road view of Heathcote Valley side going up to John Britten Reserve. Avon-Heathcote Estuary, Christchurch, Canterbury Plains, Pegasus Bay beyond (41)


2009. Summit Road view of Morgans Valley, Heathcote Valley, Horotane Valley, Avoca Valley, Christchurch, Canterbury Plains (42)


2009. Summit Road / Mt Pleasant-Mt Cavendish Saddle view of Avon-Heathcote Estuary, Christchurch, Canterbury Plains, Pegasus Bay (43)

See USA Chemtrails in the sky (Educate-Yourself)

Mount Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery Ruins

Coolpix of Mt Pleasant northern slope WW2 3.7 inch Anti Aircraft Battery Ruins - 4 concrete gun emplacements above ground each with magazines, 1 command post half buried in rock. Battery Camp Ruins - further down Mt Pleasant northern slope:


2009. DOC Sign: Mt Pleasant WW11 3.7 inch Anti Aircraft Battery, Port Hills


2009. WW2 Anti Aircraft Gun Emplacement below Mt Pleasant (499m) Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Gun Emplacement. Port Hills backdrop


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Gun Emplacement. Gebbies Pass, Port Hills backdrop


2009. Mt Pleasant (499m) WW2 Anti Aircraft Gun Emplacement above Mt Pleasant Bluffs


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Lyttelton, Governors Bay & Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Lyttelton, Quail Island, Gebbies Pass, Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Bradley, Gebbies Pass, Quail Island


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Purau, The Monument, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley, Diamond Harbour


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Mt Evans, The Monument, Purau


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery zoom view of Mt Evans, The Monument, Purau


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Gun Emplacements above bluffs. Pegasus Bay backdrop


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Gun Emplacements. Pegasus Bay backdrop


2009. Command Post Roof view of Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Gun Emplacements & Pacific


2009. Command Post Roof view of Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Gun Emplacement, Lyttelton Harbour, Adderley Head, Pacific


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Gun Emplacement view of Godley Head, Lyttelton Harbour, Adderley Head, Pacific


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Command Post Roof view of Mt Evans, The Monument & Mt Herbert, Banks Peninsula


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Command Post Roof view of Diamond Harbour, The Monument, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley


2009. WW2 Anti Aircraft Command Post Roof view of Mt Pleasant Summit (499m), Mt Cavendish & Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Banks Peninsula Peaks: Mt Evans, The Monument, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Purau, Mt Evans, The Monument, Mt Herbert


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Summit Road / Evans Pass Intersection, overlooking Lyttelton Harbour & Mt Evans


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Summit Road / Evans Pass Intersection. Godley Head Road left. Lyttelton Harbour, Adderley Head, Pacific backdrop


2009. Mt Pleasant view of Scarborough, Godley Head Road, Lyttelton Harbour Mouth, Adderley Head, Pacific


2009. Mt Pleasant view of WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery Camp Ruins, Sumner, Scarborough, Pacific


2009. Mt Pleasant view of WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery Camp Ruins, Jollies Bush, Pegasus Bay


2009. Mt Pleasant zoom view of WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery Camp Ruins, Jollies Bush, Pegasus Bay


2009. Mt Pleasant view of WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery Camp Ruins, Jollies Bush, Summit Road, Richmond Hill, Pacific


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery Camp Ruins view of Richmond Hill, Sumner, Scarborough, Pacific


2009. Mt Pleasant view of WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery Camp Ruins, Jollies Bush, Summit Road, Richmond Hill, Pacific

See "Historic Mt Pleasant Heavy Anti-aircraft Artillery Battery" (DOC)

Around Mount Pleasant Summit

2009. Summit Road view of Heathcote Valley side going up to John Britten Reserve, above Avon-Heathcote Estuary. Mt Thomas & Pegasus Bay backdrop


2009. Summit Road view of Heathcote Valley, Christchurch CBD, Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps


2009. MTB, Summit Road, Mt Cavendish. Christchurch, Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps backdrop


2009. Summit Road Carpark, Mt Pleasant-Mt Cavendish Saddle


2009. Mt Pleasant-Mt Cavendish saddle. Governors Bay & Port Hills backdrop


2009. Mt Pleasant-Mt Cavendish Saddle view of Lyttelton Harbour, Quail Island, Gebbies Pass & Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant-Mt Cavendish Saddle view of Diamond Harbour, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley, Quail Island, Gebbies Pass

One Saturday morning, nor'wester blowing, yet cloudy and cool over the Port Hills, I parked my car at Mt Pleasant-Mt Cavendish saddle by Summit Road, as I wanted to walk around Mt Pleasant summit (499m). Two other cars were parked on the saddle. Down Summit Road side of the saddle I looked at Heathcote Valley, Christchurch CBD, Avon-Heathcote Estuary, Pegasus Bay and Southern Alps. On the other side I stood on a WW2 guard hut roof and looked at Lyttelton and beyond to Banks Peninsula.


2009. Dog Walker, Mt Pleasant-Mt Cavendish Saddle, Port Hills


2009. Crater Rim Walkway / Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track going towards Mt Pleasant Summit Bluffs


2009. Summit Road Carpark, Mt Pleasant-Mt Cavendish Saddle. Christchurch, Canterbury Plains, Southern Alps backdrop

I watched a woman walking her big, fluffy, white dog towards Major Hornbrook Track. Starting left, I followed a bloke about my age toting a backpack full of rockclimbing gear along Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track, part of Crater Rim Walkway. The track climbed towards Mt Pleasant summit, then became a rocky contour path below Mt Pleasant summit bluffs. I passed 4 rockclimbers: 1 climbing, 3 on the path. "I rockclimbed years ago," I said. "Not anymore." A gangly bloke in shorts and yellow shirt grinned.


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track Rockclimber, Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluff Track below Mt Pleasant Summit Bluffs, Port Hills


2009. Stone Steps & Tree Fuchsia, Fuchsia excorticata, across Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track


2009. Bluff Overhang, Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track. See Rockclimbers' Stainless-Steel Bolts


2009. Duckboard Bridge, Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track, Port Hills

I walked through native bush below Mt Pleasant basalt bluffs, and found 2 more blokes rockclimbing: 1 climbing, 1 belaying below. I passed low caves at bluff bottoms, smelling of urine, and looked at rockclimbers' stainless-steel bolts attached up a cave overhang. Where the track wasn't rocky, it was dry clay covered in roots and leaf-litter. I passed whiteywoods, tree nettles, tree fuchsias and mountain horopito, ramarama, pepper trees, Pseudowintera colorata, with redly stained green leaves. I crossed a duckboard bridge over a dry stream in bush so dark my Nikon flashed a coolpix: 10.30 am.


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track Broom Polluted view of Major Hornbrook Track below Mt Cavendish. Port Hills backdrop


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluff Track Broom Polluted view of Lyttelton, Quail Island, Gebbies Pass, Head of the Bay & Governors Bay, Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track Broom Polluted view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Bradley, Quail Island, Gebbies Pass


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track Broom Polluted view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley, Quail Island, Gebbies Pass


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Purau, Mt Evans, The Monument, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Lytteton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Spur below Mt Pleasant Summit


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Mt Pleasant Summit, Port Hills



2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track southern view of Bluffs below Mt Pleasant Summit. Canterbury Plains beyond saddle

2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track southern view of Mt Pleasant Summit Bluffs & Mt Cavendish. Canterbury Plains beyond


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Major Hornbrook Track below Mt Cavendish. Port Hills backdrop


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs track view of Governors Bay & Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton, Quail Island, Gebbies Pass & Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track Broom Polluted view of Lyttelton, Quail Island & Gebbies Pass

In native bush openings, I had spectacular broom-polluted views over Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley, Quail Island, Gebbies Pass, southern Port Hills and Mt Cavendish.


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Radio Masts & Trig beacon on Mt Pleasant Summit


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track Spur view of Mt Pleasant Southern Slope, Christchurch, Canterbury Plains, Southern Alps, Mt Cavendish


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track Spur view of Mt Cavendish, The Tors & Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track Spur view of Lyttelton, Quail Island, Gebbies Pass, Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track Spur view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Bradley, Quail Island, Gebbies Pass


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track Spur view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Purau, The Monument, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley

Mt Pleasant Bluffs track zigzagged up a windy spur, partly sheltered by kanukas. I sat on a spur rock and scoffed Coke, apple, snack bar, while admiring views: Mt Pleasant summit with radio masts and trig beacon; saddle view of Canterbury Plains, Christchurch, Southern Alps; Mt Cavendish; Port Hills peaks to Gebbies Pass; Governors Bay; Head of the Bay, Charteris Bay, Quail Island; Lyttelton; Diamond Harbour; Mt Herbert; Mt Bradley; The Monument; Mt Evans; Banks Peninsula. On a northern Mt Pleasant slope, I saw a skyline view of a WW2 Anti-Aircraft Battery.


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track Spur view of Mt Evans, The Monument, Purau, Diamond Harbour, Lyttelton


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track Spur view of Mt Evans, Banks Peninsula


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track Spur view of Banks Peninsula. See top left WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery, Mt Pleasant northern slope


2009. Kanuka on Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track Spur. See WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery on Mt Pleasant northern slope skyline

Closer to the spur, I saw Major Hornbrook Track and Bridle Path winding below Mt Cavendish to Lyttelton. I watched rockclimbers I'd passed, climbing and abseiling, the yellow shirted bloke a rock spider clinging to the red-lichened cliff he climbed.


2009. Track Marker on Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track Tree, Port Hills

Back on Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track, a scrawny youth caught up with me. "Nice views on that spur," I said. "I sat there a while" He went to the spur. A young woman passed, going fast down stone steps through native bush. "I'm slower than you," I said. "I take many pics." She smiled.


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Mt Pleasant northern slope with WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery on skyline


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Mt Pleasant Summit Bluffs & Spur


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Mt Pleasant Summit Bluffs, Lyttelton, Quail Island, Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton, Quail Island, Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton, Governors Bay, Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Purau, The Monument, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track Broom Polluted view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Purau, The Monument, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley, Gebbies Pass, Quail Island


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track Cabbage Tree view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Bradley, Gebbies Pass, Port Hills, Quail Island


2009. Mt Herbert Bluffs Track view of Mt Pleasant Summit Bluffs, Spur, Lyttelton, Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton, Quail Island, Gebbies Pass, Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Bradley, Gebbies Pass, Port Hills, Quail Island


2009. Mt Pleasant Bluffs track view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Bradley, Gebbies Pass, Quail Island

On the other side of the spur, zigzagging down more stone steps, I passed through more native bush below more Mt Pleasant basalt bluffs. Trees were marked with orange plastic triangles, unnecessary I thought, as Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track was well worn. A skinny couple, their skinny, adult daughter and small, fluffy, white dog passed, trekking to Mt Cavendish.


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track & Spur below Mt Pleasant Summit (499m)


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Mt Pleasant Bluffs, Lyttelton, Port Hills



2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Lyttelton & Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Lyttelton, Quail Island, Port Hills


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley, Gebbies Pass, Quail Island

I zigzagged up a bluff break to the WW2 Anti-Aircraft Battery in tussockland on a Mt Pleasant northern slope. It took me 1 hour 30 minutes to dawdle Mt Pleasant Bluffs Track from Mt Cavendish-Mt Pleasant saddle to the AA Battery. The smiley young woman jogged by, returning to Mt Cavendish.


2009. Jogger, Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Gun Emplacements


2009. Walker, Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Gun Emplacements


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Gun Emplacement view of Mt Pleasant Summit (499m) & Mt Cavendish (445m)

I lingered an hour or so on Mt Pleasant northern slope, as the views were magnificent: Mt Pleasant summit; Lyttelton Harbour towards Adderley Head and Godley Head; Summit Road / Evans Pass crossroads; Scarborough; Sumner; Pegasus Bay; Southern Alps; Canterbury Plains; Christchurch. And southern views over Lyttelton, Bays..., Banks Peninsula peaks and Port Hills.


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery Sign by Gun Emplacements. Mt Pleasant Summit (499m), Mt Cavendish (445m) & Port Hills backdrop


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Control Room view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Bradley, Gebbies Pass, Quail Island


2009. Graffiti, Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Control Room Window


2009. Jogger, Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Gun Emplacement


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Summit Road, Lyttelton Harbour & Mt Evans


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Summit Road / Evans Pass Intersection. Lyttelton Harbour & Adderley Head backdrop

I explored the WW2 Anti-Aircraft Battery: four 3.7 inch AA gun emplacements - large lumps of thick concrete with graffiti, and a flat roofed thick concrete control room, half buried in solid rock. I stood on the flat roof of the control room and took 360 degree coolpix, while three men jogged by.


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery view of Summit Road / Evans Pass Intersection. Godley Head Road left. Pacific, Lyttelton Harbour & Adderley Head backdrop


2009. Mt Pleasant northern slope Gate & Stile on the way down to WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery Camp. Pacific, Godley Head & Adderley Head backdrop


2009. Mt Pleasant northern slope view of Pacific, Scarborough & Godley Head Road

Further down Mt Pleasant northern slope, overlooking Scarborough, Sumner and Pegasus Bay, I explored demolished Battery Camp ruins amongst tussock, clover and thistles: cracked concrete slabs; low broken walls; 3 series of concrete steps going nowhere, backdropped by windblown trees.


2009. WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery Camp Ruins, overlooking Richmond Hill, Sumner Beach & Scarborough


2009. Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery Camp Ruins view of Jollies Bush, Summit Road, Richmond Hill. Pacific backdrop


2009. Cracked Concrete: Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery Camp Ruins overlooking Richmond Hill, Sumner, Scarborough & Pacific


2009. Military Steps Going Nowhere: Mt Pleasant WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery Camp Ruins

"Typical military," I thought, "Leaving a wasteland of thistles and cracked concrete." In SA, I'd had a gutsfull of the military: 4 years cadets at Northlands Boys HS; 8 years conscripted Durban North Commando with intermittent camps - Cape, Natal, Mozambique border; 1 year cadet master at NBHS; 11 years avoiding cadet master militarization of school boys in three more Durban and East London high schools; all overseen by brainwashing SADF securocrats during apartheid.


2009. Mt Pleasant northern slope view of Richmond Hill, Jollies Bush, Summit Road, Sumner, Scarborough, Pacific


2009. Mt Pleasant northern slope view of Richmond Hill, Sumner, Scarborough, Pacific


2009. Mt Pleasant, Greenwood Park view of Jollies Bush, Sumner, Scarborough, Pacific


2009. Mt Pleasant, Greenwood Park zoom view of Jollies Bush, Sumner, Scarborough, Pacific


2009. Mt Pleasant, Greenwood Park view of Richmond Hill, Sumner, Scarborough, Pacific


2009. Mt Pleasant, Greenwood Park view of Summit Road corner above Richmond Hill, Sumner, Scarborough, Pacific


2009. Mt Pleasant, Greenwood Park view of Redcliffs, Avon-Heathcote Estuary, Christchurch, Pegasus Bay, Mt Thomas


2009. Mt Pleasant, Greenwood Park view of Avon-Heathcote Estuary, Christchurch, Canterbury Plains, Southern Alps

Below the Battery Camp ruins, several MTBs raced along a Greenwood Park track towards Evans Pass. I walked through well watered tussockland amongst scattered trees with views over Jollies Bush, Scarborough, Sumner and Pegasus Bay, till I came to a wide track through Greenwood Park going down to Summit Road.



2009. Summit Road Stile, Greenwood Park, Mt Pleasant northern slope

I crossed a Greenwood Park stile near a Summit Road corner, and marched up Summit Road on the other side of Mt Pleasant back to my car:

Left: Greenwood Park MTB track...



2009. Greenwood Park Sign, Summit Road, Mt Pleasant

Right: Pine shelterbelt by Summit Road overlooking Eastenders Track, Barnett Park, Redcliffs...


2009. Mt Pleasant, Summit Road view of Eastenders Track right, Barnett Park, Redcliffs. Moncks Spur left, going down to Avon-Heathcote Estuary. Pegasus Bay backdrop.

Left: Farm House below Mt Pleasant summit...



2009. Summit Road view of Farm House below Mt Pleasant Summit

Right: Two Scottish Highland cattle and a stinking roadkill possum by another pine shelterbelt below the farmhouse...


2009. Roadkill Possum, Summit Road below Mt Pleasant Summit

Left: Summit Rd / Mt Pleasant Rd junction signs below Mt Pleasant summit...


2009. Summit Rd / Mt Pleasant Rd Signs, Summit Road below Mt Pleasant Summit

Right: View down Mt Pleasant summit slope to Avon-Heathcote Estuary mouth...


2009. Summit Road / Mt Pleasant Road Junction view of Avon-Heathcote Estuary Mouth

Left: View up to Mt Pleasant summit beyond shelter trees...

Right: JOHN BRITTEN MTB TRACK below Summit Road...


2009. Summit Road view of John Britten MTB Track below Mt Pleasant Summit. South New Brighton & Pegasus Bay backdrop

Left: BROADLEAF LANE & NO EXIT signs near a skyline pine...


2009. Broadleaf Lane Sign, Summit Road below Mt Pleasant Summit

Right: JOHN BRITTEN RESERVE & KENTON TRACK TO HEATHCOTE QUARRY signs...


2009. John Britten Reserve Sign, Summit Road below Mt Pleasant Summit. Heathcote Valley, Christchurch CBD & Canterbury Plains beyond


2009. Kenton Track to Heathcote Quarry Sign, Summit Road below Mt Pleasant Summit. Heathcote Valley, Christchurch CBD & Canterbury Plains beyond

Left: Two MTBs sped past, acknowledging me with smiles, the only marcher on Summit Road around Mt Pleasant...


2009. MTBs, Summit Road, John Britten Reserve Corner, Port Hills

Right: Round John Britten Reserve corner views of Mt Cavendish, The Tors, Castle Rock, southern Port Hills, Heathcote Valley, Morgans Valley, Christchurch CBD...


2009. Summit Road view of Heathcote Valley, Horotane Valley & Avoca Valley. Christchurch & Canterbury Plains beyond


2009. Summit Road southern view of Mt Cavendish, The Tors, Castle Rock, Port Hills


2009. Summit Road view of Morgans Valley Development, Heathcote Valley, Christchurch

Left: Another farmhouse below Mt Pleasant summit. More Saturday afternoon MTBs whizzed past, smiling...

Right: Scott Bench below Summit road with views of Mt Cavendish, The Tors, Castle Rock, Heathcote Valley, Morgans Valley, Avon-Heathcote Estuary, Christchurch, Canterbury Plains, Southern Alps, Pegasus Bay...


2009. Summit Road view of Scott Bench, Morgans Valley, Heathcote Valley, Avon-Heathcote Estuary, Christchurch


2009. Scott Plaques, Scott Bench, Summit Road, Mt Pleasant, Port Hills


2009. Scott Bench southern view of Summit Road, Mt Cavendish, The Tors, Castle Rock, Port Hills

It took me 1 hour to march along Summit Road from Greenwood Park, Mt Pleasant northern slope to Mt Pleasant-Mt Cavendish saddle, Mt Pleasant southern slope. Ten cars were parked on Summit Road saddle, mid afternoon walkers and rockclimbers coming and going. Two Maori men drove by in their giant three-wheeler "cars," and waved.


2009. Summit Road Carpark, Mt Pleasant-Mt Cavendish Saddle, Port Hills. Christchurch & Canterbury Plains backdrop


2009. Summit Road, Mt Pleasant-Mt Cavendish Saddle, Port Hills. Christchurch, Canterbury Plains, Southern Alps backdrop

See "Fleeing From South Africa" (Newsweek)

Down and Up Lyttelton Caldera

Coolpix of a circular walk down and up Lyttelton caldera, from Summit Road Bridle Path carpark, along Crater Rim Walkway (briefly), along Cavendish Bluffs Track below Mt Cavendish (445m), down steep Major Hornbrook Track to Lyttelton, along steep Lyttelton roads, up steep Bridle Path back to Summit Road:


2009. Summit Road Bridle Path Carpark by Pioneer Women Memorial Hut. Mt Cavendish with Gondola Station & Mt Pleasant backdrop (1)


2009. Jane Deans Bench, Bridle Path top, Heathcote Valley side. The Tors & Castle Rock backdrop (2)


2009. Heathcote Valley with Avon-Heathcote Estuary & Pegasus Bay backdrop (3)


2009. Emily Rose Jacobs Bench, Bridle Path Carpark. Quail Island & Banks Peninsula backdrop (4)


2009. Cavendish Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton, Mt Bradley, Quail Island, Gebbies Pass & southern Port Hills (5)


2009. Cavendish Bluffs Track view of Mt Pleasant. Major Hornbrook Track left (6)


2009. Cavendish Bluffs Track / Major Hornbrook Track junction view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley & Gebbies Pass (7)



2009. Major Hornbrook Track view of Bluffs below Mt Cavendish (8)


2009. Major Hornbrook Track view of Mt Pleasant Bluffs (9)


2009. Major Hornbrook Track Walkers below Mt Cavendish Gondola Station (10)


2009. Major Hornbrook Track Junction below Mt Cavendish Bluffs & Gondola Station (11)


2009. Major Hornbrook Track start / end, Somes Road, Lyttelton, below Mt Cavendish & Mt Pleasant slopes (12)


2009. Ross Parade / Ross Terrace view of Lyttelton, Quail Island & Gebbies Pass (13)


2009. Hawkhurst Road view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Evans & The Monument (14)


2009. Flimwell Lane view of Lyttelton houses on Mt Cavendish slopes (15)


2009. Top of Flimwell Lane below Ticehurst Terrace, on the way to Bridle Path, Lyttelton (16)


2009. Ticehurst Terrace on the way to Bridle Path, Lyttelton (17)


2009. Ticehurst Terrace view of Lyttelton houses on Mt Cavendish & Mt Pleasant slopes (18)


2009. Ticehurst Terrace / Bridle Path Intersection, Lyttelton (19)


2009. Bridle Path view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Evans, The Monument, Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley (20)


2009. Gate Post & Wooden Bench, Bridle Path, Lyttelton (21)


2009. Bridle Path view of Lyttelton Harbour (22)


2009. Bridle Path view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Evans, The Monument & Mt Herbert (23)


2009. Cressy Bench, Bridle Path (24)


2009. Randolph Bench, Bridle Path (25)


2009. Randolph Bench Plaque, Bridle Path (26)


2009. Randolph Bench view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour & Mt Evans (27)


2009. Randolph Bench view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Evans, The Monument, Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley (28)


2009. Randolph Bench view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley & Quail Island (29)


2009. Randolph Bench view of Mt Bradley, Quail Island & Gebbies Pass (30)


2009. Randolph Bench view of Quail Island & Gebbies Pass (31)


2009. Upper Bridle Path view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Evans & The Monument (32)


2009. Bridle Path WW2 Guard Hut view of Mt Evans (33)


2009. Bridle Path Carpark view of Diamond Harbour, Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley (34)


2009. Summit Road view of Bridle Path, Heathcote Valley, Avon-Heathcote Estuary, Christchurch, Pegasus Bay & Southern Alps (35)

Three Tracks Below Mount Cavendish

2009. Summit Road view of Bridle Path, Mt Cavendish & Mt Pleasant, Port Hills. Lyttelton Harbour right.


2009. Summit Road view of Castle Rock, Port Hills. Christchurch & Southern Alps backdrop


2009. Summit Road view of Heathcote Valley, Avon-Heathcote Estuary, Christchurch, Pegasus Bay & Southern Alps


2009. Summit Road view of Heathcote Valley, Avon-Heathcote Estuary & Pegasus Bay


2009. Summit Road view of Bridle Path top, Mt Cavendish with Gondola Station & Mt Pleasant


2009. Bridle Path Carpark, Summit Road, by Pioneer Women Memorial Hut. Mt Cavendish with Gondola Station backdrop


2009. Pioneer Women of Canterbury Stone Plaque, Stone Hut, Bridle Path Carpark, Summit Road

A & P Show Weekend: I drove up Dyers Pass in the Port Hills, then along Summit Road to the top of Bridle Path, as I wanted to do a circular walk in Lyttelton caldera below Mt Cavendish (445m), along CAVENDISH BLUFFS TRACK, down MAJOR HORNBROOK TRACK to Lyttelton, and up BRIDLE PATH back to my car.


2009. Bridle Path Carpark view of Lyttelton Harbour & Quail island towards Gebbies Pass


2009. Bridle Path Carpark view of Diamond Harbour & Banks Peninsula peaks: Mt Evans, The Monument, Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley

At Summit Road Bridle Path carpark, I coolpixed Saturday walkers sitting on a low wall scoffing late lunches while enjoying views of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour and Banks Peninsula. A Brazilian tourist handed me his camera and asked me to snap him together with his Chilean friend and girlfriends, German and Japanese. They didn't want to descend Heathcote Valley Bridle Path, and asked for another track to Christchurch: "Walk up Summit Road," I said, "Past Castle Rock and The Tors till you reach Witch Hill, then go down Rapaki Track to Christchurch. It's a long way." Off they strode, fit and smiling.


2009. Bridle Path top view of WW2 Guard Hut, Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Evans & The Monument


2009. Bridle Path top view of WW2 Guard Hut roof, Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Evans, The Monument & Mt Herbert


2009. Bridle Path top view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley & Quail Island


2009. Bridle Path Carpark Tourist view of Diamond Harbour, Mt Evans & The Monument, Banks Peninsula


2009. Bridle Path Carpark Tourists


2009. Emily Rose Jacobs Bench, Bridle Path Carpark. Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley backdrop

I coolpixed the stone hut memorial to early British settlers and Jane Deans Bench overlooking Heathcote Valley. A new Emily Rose Jacobs Bench overlooked Banks Peninsula. I snapped 360 degree views: Castle Rock; Bridle Path down Heathcote Valley; Christchurch; Avon-Heathcote Estuary; Pegasus Bay; Southern Alps; Mt Cavendish with its Gondola Station on top; Mt Pleasant (499m); Bridle Path down to Lyttelton; Diamond Harbour; Mt Evans; The Monument; Mt Herbert; Mt Bradley; Quail Island; Gebbies Pass.


2009. Crater Rim Walkway from Bridle Path Carpark to Mt Cavendish Gondola Station. Mt Pleasant right


2009. Cavendish Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton & Diamond Harbour. Mt Evans, The Monument & Mt Herbert backdrop


2009. Cavendish Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton & Diamond Harbour. Mt Evans, The Monument, Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley backdrop


2009. Cavendish Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton & Quail Island. Mt Bradley, Gebbies Pass & southern Port Hills backdrop

I passed a HIGH PRESSURE OIL PIPELINE BURIED... sign while walking Crater Rim Track towards Mt Cavendish together with a woman and her adult daughter. Soon we forked right towards Lyttelton along Cavendish Bluffs Track which zigzagged along a dry clay path over many wooden and stone steps through native bush below Mt Cavendish. I passed whiteywood, Melicytus ramiflorus, and avoided tree nettles, Urtica ferox, as I walked in slops, shorts and T shirt.


2009. Tree Nettle, Urtica ferox, & Whiteywood, Melicytis ramiflorus, seen on Cavendish Bluffs Track


2009. Cavendish Bluffs Track Tuesday Trekkers Bench view of Lyttelton, Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley


2009. Tuesday Trekkers Plaque, Tuesday Trekkers Bench, Cavendish Bluffs Track


2009. Cavendish Bluffs Track view of Mt Pleasant. Major Hornbrook Track winding past left bluff


2009. Cavendish Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley


2009. Cavendish Bluffs Track view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Bradley, Quail Island, Gebbies Pass & southern Port Hills

By a fence I walked grassland for a while, then sat on a TUESDAY TREKKERS Bench with grand views of Mt Cavendish bluffs, Mt Pleasant bluffs, Lyttelton and Banks Peninsula. Bluffs were smothered by yellow broom. Mt Herbert and Mt Bradley were smothered by yellow gorse.



2009. Cavendish Bluffs Track / Major HornBrook Track junction. Mt Pleasant backdrop


2009. Mt Pleasant - Mt Cavendish Saddle view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley


2009. Mt Pleasant - Mt Cavendish Saddle view of Mt Cavendish Ridge, Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley


2009. Some Mt Cavendish Bluffs & Ridge Top. Southern Port Hills backdrop


2009. Mt Pleasant - Mt Cavendish Saddle view of some Mt Cavendish Bluffs & Ridge top. Gebbies Pass & southern Port Hills backdrop


2009. Zoom view of Mt Cavendish Ridge & Bluffs. Southern Port Hills backdrop

Below Mt Cavendish bluffs, I zigzagged through more native bush, avoiding more tree nettles. I crossed a stile, and at Major Hornbrook Track fork I parted company with the women who continued along Crater Rim to Mt Pleasant. I coolpixed Mt Pleasant - Mt Cavendish saddle views. Major Hornbrook Track went down a ridge below Mt Cavendish to Lyttelton. I went down more wooden steps, passed more broom, and a women passed me jogging upwards. "You're a fit lady," I said. She grimaced. Thereafter several family groups slogged upwards, including three panting Labradors. I was the only walker going down.



2009. Some Mt Cavendish Bluffs seen from Major Hornbrook Track. Spot the jogger.


2009. Major Hornbrook Track junction sign. Mt Pleasant backdrop


2009. Walkers slogging up Major Hornbrook Track. Mt Cavendish Gondola Station behind


2009. View down Major Hornbrook Track near Lyttelton


2009. Ngaio, Myoporum lactum, Major Hornbrook Track


2009. Lower Major Hornbrook Track view of Lyttelton & Diamond Harbour. Mt Evans, The Monument, Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley backdrop.




2009. Lower Major Hornbrook Track zoom view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Evans & The Monument


2009. Lower Major Hornbrook Track view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, The Monument, Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley


2009. Somes Road, Lyttelton Start / End of Major Hornbrook Track

A junction sign showed CHALMERS TRACK, LYTTELTON, MT PLEASANT BLUFFS TRACK. I continued down to Lyttelton houses with Mt Pleasant bluffs on my left and Mt Cavendish ridge on my right. Near the bottom of Major Hornbrook Track I passed a grove of mature kowhai, Sophora tetraptera and Ngaio, Myoporum lactum trees with views over Lyttelton. From Summit Road Bridle Path carpark, it took me 1 hour 25 minutes to reach the start / end of Major Hornbrook Track at Somes Road in Lyttelton.


2009. Major Hornbrook Track Sign, Somes Road, Lyttelton


2009. Ross Terrace view of Lyttelton, Quail Island & Gebbies Pass


2009. Ross Terrace view of Lyttelton houses below Mt Pleasant slopes

For the next hour I walked steep Lyttelton roads on my way to Bridle Path. Somes Road became Ross Terrace where house screening trees and shrubs were planted: deodar cedars, Douglas firs, willows, gums, pines on my right. On my left were pittosporums, cabbage trees, willows, metrosideros, dodoneas, gums. When I stopped to coolpix Lyttelton, my legs still wobbled from braking down Major Hornbrook Track.


2009. Ross Terrace view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, The Monument, Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley


2009. Ross Parade / Ross Terrace view of Lyttelton, Quail Island & Gebbies Pass


2009. Ross Terrace view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour & Mt Bradley


2009. Selwyn Lane, Lyttelton view of Diamond Harbour, The Monument, Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley


2009. Selwyn Parade / Ross Terrace intersection, Lyttelton, below Mt Cavendish

Downhill along Ross Terrace, I had views of Lyttelton Harbour; Quail Island; Mt Evans; Mt Herbert; Mt Bradley and Remarkable Dykes near Gebbies Pass. By Ross Parade intersection a woman walking her dog passed. Beyond Selwyn Lane, I turned into Selwyn Parade, which crossed a suburban ridge below Mt Cavendish to steep Selwyn Road.



2009. Selwyn Road view up upper Hawkhurst Road, Lyttelton, below Mt Cavendish


2009. Hawkhurst Road view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, The Monument, Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley


2009. Upper Hawkhurst Road view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley


2009. Hawkhurst Road, Lyttelton view of Mt Cavendish with Gondola Station

I detoured up Selwyn Road then steep Hawkhurst Road to its NO EXIT end, and looked at refurbished cottages, some tasteful, some monstrosities, some demolished for bigger houses on tiny plots. I thought those houses would shake to bits in an earthquake, or in a deluge slide down slippery Mt Cavendish slopes.



2009. Lower Hawkhurst Road view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Evans & The Monument


2009. Lower Hawkhurst Road, Bridle Path Sign, Lyttelton


2009. Lower Hawkhurst Road, Lyttelton view of Diamond Harbour & Mt Evans


2009. Hawkhurst Road, Bridle Path & Flimwell Lane Signs, Lyttelton


2009. Flimwell Lane, Lyttelton

I backtracked down steep Hawkhurst Road till I found Bridle Path signs directing me uphill again. I climbed Flimwell Lane concrete steps with views over steep Lyttelton gardens. Flimwell Lane took me to steep Ticehurst Terrace which intersected with steep Bridle Path tarsealed road.


2009. Flimwell Lane view of Lyttelton houses on Mt Cavendish slopes


2009. Flimwell Lane top view of Lyttelton houses on Mt Cavendish slopes


2009. Ticehurst Terrace view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Evans & The Monument


2009. Lyttelton Ticehurst Terrace / Bridle Path intersection view of Diamond Harbour, Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley


2009. Bridle Path view of Mt Cavendish


2009. Bridle Path Bench with Settler Ships Ceramic Plaques


2009. Bridle Path view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Evans & The Monument

At the start of Bridle Path gravel, I sat on a wooden bench and coolpixed Lyttelton. A late afternoon nor'wester blew over the Southern Alps, sucking cool air from Lyttelton up Bridle Path. With the wind cooling my back, steep Bridle Path was quite pleasant. While I admired Mt Cavendish and Mt Pleasant, two smiley Asian girls passed on their way down to Lyttelton. Thereafter I had Bridle Path to myself.



2009. Bridle Path view of Mt Pleasant & Lyttelton houses



2009. Bridle Path view of Mt Cavendish with Gondola Station


2009. Bridle Path view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Evans, The Monument, Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley


2009. Cressy Bench view of Mt Cavendish


2009. Cressy Bench view of Mt Cavendish & Mt Pleasant


2009. Cressy Bench view of Mt Pleasant & Lyttelton houses


2009. Cressy Bench view of Lyttelton housing on Mt Pleasant slope. Mt Evans backdrop


2009. Cressy Bench view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Evans & The Monument

At Cressy Bench (named after a settler sailing ship) I stopped for Coke and coolpix with panoramic views: Mt Cavendish; Mt Pleasant; Lyttelton; Mt Evans; Lyttelton Harbour; Diamond Harbour; The Monument; Mt Herbert; Mt Bradley; Remarkable Dykes; Gebbies Pass; Port Hills to Coopers Knobs; Charteris Bay; Quail Island; Head of the Bay.


2009. Cressy Bench view of Lyttelton & Diamond Harbour. Mt Evans, The Monument & Mt Herbert backdrop


2009. Cressy Bench view of Diamond Harbour below Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley


2009. Cressy Bench view of Quail Island with Mt Bradley, Gebbies Pass & southern Port Hills backdrop


2009. Cressy Bench view of Quail Island with Gebbies Pass & southern Port Hills backdrop



2009. Bridle Path, Oil Pipeline Buried Sign, Lyttelton side

Higher up, I passed another HIGH PRESSURE OIL PIPELINE BURIED... sign, like the sign on top. With Lyttelton shrinking the higher I climbed, I stopped at Randolph Bench (named after another settler sailing ship) for more panoramic views. Mt Herbert and Mt Bradley gorse glowed in late afternoon sunlight. I thought early British settlers didn't have to put up with gorse pollution on Banks Peninsula and broom pollution on Mt Cavendish and Mt Pleasant.


2009. Upper Bridle Path view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Evans, The Monument & Mt Herbert


2009. Upper Bridle Path view of Lyttelton, Quail Island, Mt Bradley & Gebbies Pass



2009. Upper Bridle Path, WW2 Guard Hut


2009. Bridle Path WW2 Guard Hut view of Lyttelton & Mt Evans


2009. Bridle Path WW2 Guard Hut view of Lyttelton & Diamond Harbour with Mt Evans, The Monument & Mt Herbert backdrop


2009. Bridle Path WW2 Guard Hut view of Lyttelton & Diamond Harbour with Mt Evans, The Monument, Mt Herbert & Mt Bradley backdrop


2009. Bridle Path WW2 Guard Hut view of Lyttelton, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley & Quail Island

Near the top, I stopped at both WW2 concrete guard huts for more views. It took me 40 minutes to climb the gravel section of Bridle Path from Lyttelton to Summit Road.


2009. Bridle Path top view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Evans, The Monument & Mt Herbert


2009. Bridle Path top view of Lyttelton, Diamond Harbour, Mt Herbert, Mt Bradley & Quail Island


2009. Bridle Path top view of Quail Island & Gebbies Pass


2009. Crater Rim Walkway view of Bridle Path Carpark & Pioneer Women Memorial Hut. Summit Road & The Tors, Port Hills backdrop

At Summit Road carpark, the hard nor'wester waved tussocks and buffeted my car. A Hertz van pulled up, filled with gawping codgers. Two younger women emerged and briefly stood by Jane Deans Bench to snap two men-in-black striding down Heathcote Valley Bridle Path. Looking askance, the women scuttled back, while I cooled off in the wind.


2009. Summit Road / Jane Deans Bench view of Castle Rock, Avon-Heathcote Estuary, Christchurch, Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps


2009. Bridle Path top view of Heathcote Valley, Avon-Heathcote Estuary, Christchurch, Canterbury Plains, Pegasus Bay & Southern Alps

Mt Herbert Walkway from Diamond Harbour

Some pics of my Mt Herbert Walkway walk up Mt Herbert (919m), on Labour Weekend Saturday from Diamond Harbour, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand:


2009. Diamond Harbour Signs, Marine Drive (1)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway Stile (2)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway gorse valley with Mt Herbert backdrop (3)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Governors Bay below Dyers Pass, Port Hills. Southern Alps backdrop (4)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Port Hills from Coopers knobs to Mt Ada. Southern Alps backdrop (5)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway Pond view of Port Hills from Marleys Hill to The Tors (6)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Rapaki, Cass Bay & Lyttelton below Port Hills. Southern Alps backdrop (7)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Lyttelton below The Tors, Mt Cavendish & Mt Pleasant, Port Hills. Bridle Path snakes above Lyttelton (8)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Mt Pleasant & Evans Pass, Port Hills (9)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Mt Evans Purau to Port Levy Road (10)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway farm track on dip slope below Mt Herbert (11)


2009. Dead Lamb, Mt Herbert Walkway (12)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway farm track on dip slope below Mt Herbert: getting steeper (13)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Diamond Harbour, Purau, Lyttelton & Port Hills from The Tors to Godley Head. Pegasus Bay backdrop (14)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway strenuously steep view of Diamond Harbour, Purau, Lyttelton & Port Hills from Mt Cavendish to Godley Head (15)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Diamond Harbour & Lyttelton below Port Hills from The Witch to Mt Pleasant. Southern Alps backdrop (16)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Diamond Harbour, Purau & Lyttelton below Port Hills from The Tors to Godley Head. Pegasus Bay backdrop (17)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of a Long White Cloud over Southern Alps with Sugarloaf summit, Port Hills below (18)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Quail Island & Governors Bay below Port Hills from Hoon Hay Reserve to Witch Hill. Southern Alps backdrop (19)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Port Hills from Gebbies Pass up to Gibraltar Rock & Coopers Knobs, to Hoon Hay Reserve above Governors Bay. Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps backdrop (20)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Charteris Bay, Head of the Bay & Governors Bay below Port Hills from Coopers Knobs to Mt Vernon. Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps backdrop (21)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Head of the Bay below Port Hills from Coopers Knobs to Mt Ada. Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps backdrop (22)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Gebbies Pass, Port Hills. Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps backdrop (23)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Mt Bradley slope & Gebbies Pass. Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps backdrop (24)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of gorse polluted Mt Bradley. Lake Ellesmere backdrop (25)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway zoom view of gorse polluted Mt Bradley (26)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Mt Bradley & Gebbies Pass, Port Hills. Southern Alps backdrop (27)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway dip slope view of Dyers Pass, Port Hills from Marleys Hill to Mt Vernon. Christchurch & Southern Alps backdrop (28)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Diamond Harbour, Cass Bay & Lyttelton below Port Hills from Witch Hill to Mt Cavendish. Christchurch & Long White cloud over Southern Alps backdrop (29)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Diamond Harbour & Lyttelton below Mt Pleasant, Port Hills. Evans Pass going right. Pegasus Bay backdrop (30)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Lyttelton Harbour below Mt Evans slope. Godley Head, Port Hills backdrop (31)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway dip slope view of Purau & Lyttelton below Port Hills from The Tors to Evans Pass. Christchurch, Long White Cloud over Southern Alps & Pegasus Bay backdrop (32)


2009. Walkers summiting Mt Herbert (919m). Mt Herbert Walkway seen snaking down the dip slope. Purau below Mt Evans right. Lyttelton Harbour & Port Hills behind, from Mt Pleasant to Godley Head. Pegaus Bay backdrop (33)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of dip slope, Quail Island, Rapaki, Cass Bay & Lyttelton below Port Hills from Mt Vernon to Mt Pleasant. Christchurch, Canterbury Plains, Southern Alps, Pegasus Bay backdrop (34)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit Trig Beacon. Port Hills, Canterbury Plains, Southern Alps behind (35)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit Walkers by Radio Repeater Station (36)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit Sign, highest point Banks Peninsula (37)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit Walkers by Radio Repeater Station & Trig Beacon. Southern Alps backdrop (38)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit Radio Repeater Station. Southern Alps backdrop (39)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Port Hills from Cass Peak to Scott Scenic Reserve. Christchurch, Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps backdrop (40)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Port Hills from Marleys Hill to The Tors: Governors Bay to Rapaki, Cass Bay, Lyttelton. Christchurch, Canterbury Plains, Southern Alps backdrop (41)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Charteris Bay, Head of the Bay, Governors Bay & Port Hills from Cass Peak to Mt Vernon. Christchurch, Canterbury Plains, Southern Alps backdrop (42)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Charteris Bay, Quail Island, Head of the Bay, Governors Bay & Port Hills from Mt Ada to The Tors. Christchurch, Canterbury Plains, Southern Alps backdrop (43)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Mt Bradley & Gebbies Pass up to Gibraltar Rock & Coopers Knobs, Port Hills. Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps backdrop (44)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Mt Bradley. Lake Ellesmere, Pacific, Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps backdrop (45)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Mt Bradley. Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps backdrop (46)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Mt Bradley. Lake Ellesmere, Kaitorete Spit & Pacific backdrop (47)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Mt Bradley. Lake Ellesmere, Kaitorete Spit & Pacific backdrop. Mt Herbert Shelter green speck left (48)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of lower Kaituna Valley. Mt Herbert Shelter green speck right. Lake Ellesmere, Kaitorete Spit & Pacific backdrop (49)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of middle Kaituna Valley (50)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of upper Kaituna Valley (51)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Kaituna Valley Head (52)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit / Port Levy Saddle Sign (53)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of ridge to Port Levy Saddle & Banks Peninsula (54)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of DOC marker pole stash & ridges above Port Levy (55)


2009. Walkers summiting Mt Herbert with Port Levy view. Pacific backdrop (56)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Port Levy. Pacific backdrop (57)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Mt Evans slopes & Port Levy. Pacific backdrop (58)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Mt Evans & Port Levy. Pacific backdrop (59)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of The Monument & Port Levy. Pacific backdrop (60)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Mt Evans, Lyttelton Harbour & Godley Head, Port Hills. Pegasus Bay backdrop (61)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Mt Evans, Purau, Lyttelton Harbour & Godley Head, Port Hills. Pegasus Bay backdrop (62)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Dip Slope, Mt Evans slopes, Purau, Lyttelton Harbour, Port Hills from Mt Pleasant to Godley Head. Pegaus Bay backdrop (63)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit zoom view of Dip Slope, Purau, Lyttelton Harbour & Port Hills from Evans Pass to Godley Head. Pegasus Bay backdrop (64)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Dip Slope, Rapaki, Cass Bay & Lyttelton below Port Hills from Witch Hill to Mt Pleasant. Christchurch, Canterbury Plains, Southern Alps backdrop (65)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Quail Island & Port Hills from Sugarloaf to The Tors. Christchurch, Canterbury Plains, Southern Alps backdrop (66)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Charteris Bay, Head of the Bay, Governors Bay & Port Hills from Cass Peak to Sugarloaf. Christchurch, Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps backdrop (67)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Port Hills from Gebbies Pass to Gibraltar Rock & Coopers Knobs, to Cass Peak. Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps backdrop (68)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Port Hills from Gibraltar Rock & Coopers Knobs to Mt Ada. Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps backdrop (69)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Mt Bradley, Gebbies Pass to Gibraltar Rock & Coopers Knobs, Port Hills. Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps backdrop (70)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Mt Bradley & Gebbies Pass, Port Hills. Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps backdrop (71)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Mt Bradley. Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps backdrop (72)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Mt Bradley. Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps backdrop (73)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Mt Bradley. Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps backdrop (74)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Mt Bradley. Lake Ellesmere, Kaitorete Spit & Pacific backdrop (75)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Mt Bradley slope. Lake Ellesmere, Kaitorete Spit & Pacific backdrop. Mt Herbert Shelter green speck left (76)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of lower Kaituna Valley. Mt Herbert Shelter green speck right. Lake Ellesmere, Kaitorete Spit & Pacific backdrop (77)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Head of the Bay & Governors Bay below Port Hills. Christchurch, Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps backdrop (78)


2009. Mt Herbert Summit view of Quail Island, Governors Bay, Rapaki & Cass Bay below Port Hills from Marleys Hill to Witch Hill. Christchurch, Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps backdrop (79)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Dip Slope, Quail Island & Port Hills from Dyers Pass to Evans Pass. Governors Bay, Rapaki, Cass Bay & Lyttelton below Port Hills. Christchurch, Canterbury Plains, Southern Alps & Pegasus Bay backdrop (80)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Quail Island, Charteris Bay, Head of the Bay, Governors Bay below Port Hills from Mt Ada to Witch Hill. Christchurch, Canterbury Plains, Southern Alps backdrop (81)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Quail Island, Rapaki, Cass Bay & Lyttelton below Port Hills from Mt Vernon to Mt Pleasant. Christchurch, Canterbury Plains, Southern Alps backdrop (82)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Port Hills from Gebbies Pass to Mt Ada. Canterbury Plains & Southern Alps backdrop (83)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Purau, Diamond Harbour & Lyttelton below Port Hills from The Tors to Godley Head. Pegasus Bay backdrop (84)


2009. Mt Herbert Walkway view of Quail Island below Port Hills from Mt Ada to The Tors. Long White Cloud over Southern Alps backdrop (85)

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