Plimmerton

Plimmerton is about 25 mins from Wellington by car or half an hour by train. We stayed in this lovely seaside community at an NZMCA (NZ Motor Caravan Association) Park for about a week before we crossed over to the South Island. The park was huge, but being a popular stop before or after travelling by ferry, most nights it was quite full. The night before we left for the ferry, it was chokka! We ended up giving our space to someone just arriving and parked ourselves out in the middle in front of some campervans. We were leaving quite early (6:30am) but made sure we wouldn't be blocking anyone in.

Apart from that one night out in the middle, we were parked near the back fence away from the front gate. From here, we had a clear view of the railway track. We saw Kiwi Rail freight trains go past quite often . . .

. . . and then the Metlink passenger trains that were very frequent. They departed every half hour to go into Wellington, and so we decided that one day we would take a train into the city. We had planned to come back to Plimmerton on the train as well, but that was not to be. As mentioned in my previous post, something went wrong with the power, and trains were cancelled for a while.

Just a short distance from the NZMCA Park, we discovered this Doggy Daycare. Without this, we wouldn't have been able to spend the day in Wellington as we couldn't leave Lucy for that long on her own. Not only did they agree to have Lucy for the very next day, but they were also able to give her a full groom for us.

Right beside here we were staying was a park that was used for archery as well as other sports. We noticed people regularly exercising their dogs here, and we walked through this park to get to an underpass (under the train tracks).

In this next photo, the far end is where we entered the underpass from the park side. To get to the train station, you go up the ramp off to the side, and if you continue straight though and out this other side, you end up right in town! So handy. It only took us about 10 minutes to walk into town.

There were some great murals in the underpass—this was one of our favourites.

If you ever come to Plimmerton, there's a nice fish 'n' chips shop (the one just around the corner) and the pizza on the corner is fabulous. It can take a long time for them to make your pizza though, so perhaps consider ordering ahead by phone. Walking on past the shops, you come to the waterfront.

There's not a lot of sand on this beach—it's mostly rocks, but still people manage to enjoy themselves.

There are some places you can get down and walk along the shore . . .

. . . but it was easier to walk along the lovely wide footpath.

This was one of the few sandy spots.

There wasn't a lot of space between the high bank to our left and the road (with the sea on our far right). Houses are built right up against the bank and in some cases part way up the bank as well (see the first photo in this post). In the photo below, you can see behind the house some of the work that's necessary to stabilise the bank. No room for a back yard here, but the views and having the sea just across the road out front would be wonderful.

One day we went for a drive and found a high point that gave us some fabulous views looking south along the coast.

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