A winter walk in the hills

Today we took a day off from our job search to go for a walk in the Port Hills. We started in Victoria Park. This is the site of the 1954 murder of Honora Rieper, which was later made into a movie called Heavenly Creatures, directed by Peter Jackson. It's a crazy story: Pauline and Juliet are teenage girls in a very close friendship. The parents think they're too close, and decide to send Juliet to South Africa to split them up. The girls are angry and blame Pauline's mother, so they plot to kill her. They take her to Victoria Park and hit her over the head with a brick. This really happened.

So that's not why we went there, but while we were there we remembered the film and thought we'd tell you about it.

Here are some photos from the walk. We started on the East Side Bush track by the Victoria Park visitor's center, then went up Bowenvale trail, up up up to the summit road. Coming back down was much nicer... we came down Cedrics track to the Latters Spur track which took us back to Victoria Park and our car. The walk was a little over 8km and took about 2 hours. We saw a nice creek, some sheep, and a really cool mountain bike stunt course.