The Private "Cable Cars"

After I finished my earlier post, the wind dropped to near zero and went from north to south, the sun came out intermittently, and so after our evening meal (the slow-cooker stew) we went for a walk to see if we could photograph a few private cable cars.
But first I thought I should show you a picture that Joan took yesterday of the Wellington Cable Car. It was at the top of its run that we saw, in the Cable Car Museum, the video about private cable cars.


Obviously not a cable car, but a good example of how the Wellington hill dwellers make arrangements to park their cars. What was interesting about this was that the owner has a big pile of pebbles to stop him driving too far forward.

That white line starting at the street and going up towards the house in the top right hand corner is the cable car track. This is the only access to that huge house.

This is a more modest private cable car.

This is the passenger compartment of the above cable car.

A different type of car that runs on two lines.

A closer view of the big house and its cable rail. The Powers principle of landscape photography is that whenever you take a picture of a view, there is always a better one around the corner.

The ground level of a serious cable car.

This is an impressive one.

This one shows you the little car in which passengers travel.

And that concludes the illustrations of the private cable cars--all within a ten-minute walk of our apartment building. We went on to the walk along Oriental Bay, and over the sea wall we could see four sting rays lazily swimming in the shallow water. Joan is having second thoughts about swimming at the beach that they were frequenting.