Twilight Walk: Cape Wanbrow – 17 February 2025
On Monday night the 17th of February the club ran a twilight hike up to Cape Wanbrow, with the general public invited to join us. Three members of the public came along and about thirteen members of the club turned up.
We started at the park behind the Council building (Banks Park) at 6.30pm where we crossed the Oamaru Creek and then under the Thames St bridge to the park beside Steampunk HQ. From there we went around behind the historical area along the harbour and took a track up on to Test St beside Harbour View Rest Home.
We then walked along to the end of Test St and up into Cape Wanbrow reserve, and then uphill to the old gun site. There is a lot of history in this area, and along with visiting the old gun site, we also went down another track and visited the old lighthouse and underground lookout bunker. There was a bit of cloud cover and a cool wind, so we didn’t hang around long.
It was then off up around the top of the reserve and over to Lookout Point, but with the cloud cover there was not much of a view of the mountains, but still good views over Oamaru. We then took a walk through a bit of bush and out on to Avon St where we took another track back down onto Test St and retraced our steps back down into the harbour area.
We then walked down past Scott’s Brewery through Harbour St and the historical buildings, past the Harbourside railway station and back to the Medway St car park.
All up it took us just under two hours, and we walked just under 6 km. It was just a different and a new thing for the club to try out, and it may be something to look at again next summer with the longer nights.
I would like to thank the three members of the public that can along and our club members that joined in.
Neville
