On the road and trail.

 Ready for another commute to sabbatical land and beyond, skewed helmet and all. Gregg had recovered this bike from the scrap heap. I was able to resurrect the brakes and so far there are three gears that are usable, plenty for my commute along the coast. It's about ten miles from home to the train station, so twenty miles road trip on the bike most days this week.

 Here is a shot of the most common trail side flowers in the pasture hillsides, gorse. There were several butterflies that seemed to like it but that may be the extent of its local fans. Gorse is very prickly so the grazing animals leave it alone.

 Here we see the island of Kapiti from the south coast point of Colonial Knob, just above the Porirua and Kenepuru area where most of my last week was spent learning from the CATT ( crisis assessment and treatment); HBT ( home based stabilization treatment ); and Acute Day Programming services of Capital & Coast Board of Health.

 Along the ride back, off the main highway that makes up most of the bike route are lovely farms. Here are some local lamas, which made a good excuse for a brief break from peddling.

The island here is Mana, reportedly the first place sheep disembarked in New Zealand, with Kapiti in the upper right .

 It took a little over an hour to hike up to this vantage point from the Kenepuru Hospital, which is about  twenty minute walk from the Porirua train station pictured below.

 Above you can see the underground passage that allows people to get to the correct side of the tracks for boarding the north and south bound trains.

 The south island is the cluster of mountains in the upper left horizon, then Mana and Kapiti islands on the right side as seen from Colonial Knob. below are more of the wonderful strawberries from Carla and Gregg's garden. They have been going strong the entire past month that I have been here. The high bush blueberries are also producing heaps. So breakfast is always full of great fresh berries.

 Below is the view back toward Wellington and it's harbor.

 There are about five dozen large windmills in this photo along the ridges just outside the Wellington area and the southern coastal range of the north island.