Makara Beach Walk

Last Saturday was an absolutely gorgeous day here in Wellington and so me and Emma decided that her studies would be put aside for the day and we would go out and enjoy the weather. There was a slight constraint on what we would chose to spend the day doing as due to the fact I am unemployed and broke as, whatever we did had to be free. Fortunately for me I am in New Zealand which isn't exactly short on scenery and ways to enjoy the great outdoors for free so we decided to explore around the Wellington area a little bit.


The previous weekend we had spent looking at some of the beaches closest to Wellington, including Oriental Bay which is literally less than 5 minutes from the CBD (you can see how close it is on the map below so this weekend we thought we would venture slightly further afield.

Oriental Bay Fountain

Oriental Bay looking toward City Centre

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After a spot of googling we found that Makara Beach was about 20 min away from our house and there was  good walk there that apparently including some awesome views and a fort. Being a sucker for cool fort things I was immediately sold although I have to admit that Emma did take a bit of convincing on having to go on an actual walk and do some actual exercise!The walk started off quite gently along the shoreline however rapidly became more steep as we climbed up to the top of the cliffs. This gave some awesome views and let us have a good look around the gun emplacements from the fort before descending back down and walking back along the stoney beach. All in all it was a good 8km walk and a great way to spend a sunny Saturday and I highly recommend it if only for the views. Although be warned - walking the 2km back along a pebble beach is not that much fun!


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Damn Pebble Beach!