Coming down the state highway 1 yesterday the weather report looked very ominous - Severe Weather Warning! Northwest gales expected with gusts of 140km/h in exposed places.Goodness me. But we were sheltered here in Ngaio, it was windy but not to the extent that I expected having read the forecast.
Then today. The clouds were blown away, we had a glorious big blue sky, windy but not that it stopped Shawni and I spending the late afternoon doing a 2 hour walk.
We promenaded along the Wellington Harbour, past Te Papa Museum, then along and past Oriental Bay, both the beaches were packed with sunbathers and even swimmers, before turning around and heading for ice creams at Kaffee Eis, another favourite Wellington memory of mine from 2011.
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| Late afternoon promenade along the Wellington foreshore. |
On a return visit today for fish and chips and ginger beer at Mac's Brewbar, along the Wellington Harbour, I saw this extract from the writing of a renowned Wellington resident and I was struck by her words on the weather here in this beautiful city:
"in the presence of its geographical suddenness, the brilliance of its light, the ambiguities - and sometimes the trials - of its weather"
I am learning the geographical suddenness, the weather changes can feel instant and rather surprising too.
