Riding the Cable Car

All Aboard!!!

Saturday was a great day to ride the cable car to the top of the mountain by Kelburn shops and the Botanical Garden...so we hopped aboard. The cable car system was started in 1898 and completed in 1902 by the prisoners at the Terrace Gaols...isn't that the best name for a prison? Gaoooolllls. Sounds scary!

Anyway, the cable cars run every few minutes every day up and down the mountain, saving precious energy and steps. The picture above shows the view moving up the hill and Susie before she gets on the car. (If you look closely you can see Susie's reflection in the right lower quadrant of the tunnel picture...isn't it spooky cool?) It makes two or three stops before it gets to the top of the hill, and goes through a few tunnels. At the top is a great restaurant, the cable car museum, a street to the Kelburn shops, and top entrances to the Botanical Gardens....Yes, we did it all.

Of course, we had to stop at a cafe for lunch, buy a Christmas ornament for Sonya's mom, and go back for ice cream while overlooking the water views! Hours just flew by. We took a record number of photos, including another of Susie eating ice cream (she switched to chocolate)...The cable car museum had a wonderful gift shop....and some goodies were purchased for some of you reading this blog!

We ended up somehow back in the rose garden after meandering past the Sundial of Human involvement, and the Zip Line Children's playground (see photos for more details!...). We walked down back into town through the cemetary again. How funny not to need a map anymore.

Anyway, it was a lovely day full of sun and laughs.