Stan Helms to Bridal Path

We took a wee walk this morning in the hills above Lyttelton. We parked the car on a nearly vertical incline near the trailhead. Have you ever noticed that houses built along really steep streets look like they're crooked? They're not though. The street is.

Anyway, we then walked up the Stan Helms track, up to Summit Rd. We stopped to admire the Pioneer Women's Memorial, and then came down the Bridal Path track. The Bridal Path is the trail that pioneers used to get over the hills and into Christchurch when they first arrived in Lyttelton Port 150 years ago.

Here's the entrance to the trail. This is a Maori wood carving. You usually see them over the entrances to maraes (meeting houses).

This is the Pioneer Women's memorial: "they passed this way" it says.

Coming down the Bridal Path now. This trail is much wider and more straight-forward than the Stan Helms trail. It's basically a gravel road all the way down.

We saw a total of about 15 people on our walk this morning, and one of them was the general manager of the company Lindsay works for. It's a small world afterall... a small, small world.