Baldwin Street and Signal Hill Tramp

I am going to post about these two together because they both involve walking up excessively large hills for a few photographs.

Two days ago we hiked up Baldwin Street, the steepest residential street in the world. It's about a ten minute walk to the street and another ten minutes up the street because it is so steep. They put stairs into the sidewalk next to the street because it is so steep. They couldn't pave it with asphalt because it would just melt down the hill because it is so steep. Here are some pictures:

A view from the top looking down (it's so steep you can't see most of it)

The gang at the top, we all live in the same complex here at Otago

The next day we hiked up Signal Hill to get to a lookout that covers the whole of Dunedin. We could see the whole harbour beneath us and the ocean beyond as well as almost every detail of the city itself. We also decided to hike down a mountain bike trail to get back and quickly realized it was a super difficult trail even to walk. We made it though and got some great pictures besides.

The view from the lookout

Claire (left), Lia (right), and I at the top. We're flatmates.

 

 

The hike down through some NZ bush.

We also saw some pretty cool animal life on our tramp. Check out this mushroom and spider:

So This spider's body was about the size of a quarter, the legs were even longer.

It was delicious. ;)