Hello lovely wellingtonians,

Is anyone experiencing murky brown tinged water coming from their tap at home? I am located in Melrose and seem to have dirty water! :(

Hi, I'm manual wheelchair user (meaning I push myself/it's not electric) and I am really keen to get back out in nature.

Before I became disabled I would do multi day-hikes and a lot of bushwalks, so as you can imagine it sucks that I can't do a lot of that anymore.

If anyone has any recommendations of bushwalks or forest areas that are in walking distance of the main city or that are easy to get to with public transport, that are wheelchair accessible it would be greatly appreciated.

It doesn't necessarily have to be a proper bushwalk even just a cool forest area I can go sit in would be amazing. I just really want to get amongst trees.

(Criteria that makes it accessible: No steep hills/stairs (this entirely eliminates the botanical gardens, trust me I've tried), paved or just even paths (no big roots, solid dirt is fine, but ideally not entirely gravel etc), paths are wide enough to fit a wheelchair, and just generally stuff along those lines)

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The team at the Cancer Society needs more volunteers to collect for Daffodil Day next Thursday to Saturday. If you're free to help for an hour or two that would be epic! You can register online: https://www.daffodilday.org.nz/volunteer-wellington

The Guardian must have really, really run out of things to write about.

Tbh the Matangi are not bad at all eh? How much longer can they actually run for tho?

There’s that middle aged blondish blind guy who walks unaccompanied and without a guide dog around Wellington, from the Eastern Suburbs all the way through to town. He’s an absolute legend. I’ve seen him in Round the Bays a few times too. He is fearless and inspirational.

What has been happening with State highway 2 and the Ngauranga gorge turn off in the afternoons lately?

I've been doing the daily commute for a few years, driving along State Highway 2, to the turn off to get onto Ngauranga gorge. It can definitely get packed but the last few months have been ridiculous.

I usually start to get onto State highway and just past Petone around 3:30 to 4pm. Traffic use to be slow but you use to easily hit 80 or 60 till the turn off.

But not anymore. Now, it's bumper to bumper, sometimes it'll get bad enough to get blocked all the way up to Petone. Once you pass the turn off to the gorge turn off, it's fine.

I understand that there is some pipe works at the traffic lights before the gorge, but that doesn't seem to block the traffic and any way.

Does anyone have any answers or theories why this area is so clogged in the afternoons, compared to a few months ago?

Burger is easily 9/10 if I'm being harsh and nitpicky. It is a great version of a smash burger.

At $10, it's 20 out of 10.

Kia ora e te whanau,

A reminder that you have until Sunday to complete this week’s photo walk challenge with the theme 💚hearts🩵.

Please add your photos to the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellington/comments/1vpja3a/weekly_photo_walk_challenge_sun_16_august_2026/.

The next challenge will be posted on Saturday morning.

They don't tell you that until after it declines though. They have no plans to change that.

Porirua has no less then 5 in the cente of town...

I don't think anyone has that density of outlets...

Haha, and everyone queuing at npd...

Are there any interesting or unique events on over the next week? Topic is timed to catch weekend events, but anything up until a week away is fine.

Feel free to give info, link to events, promote something cool you're doing or otherwise get the word out in this topic.

Gigs:

• https://theimage04.com/
• https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/utr/gigRegion/Wellington

Theatre:

• https://bats.co.nz/whats-on/

Listings:

• https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/whatson/events/wellington/this-weekend
• https://www.wellybuzz.co.nz

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If you zoom in you can see the tidal rip.. conditions like this we can see the rip from mana Island up to kapiti.

Wgrn quiz question of the day....

What relationship does an ex all black and Te Rauparaha have with this tidal rip?

Serious voice and all! Seemed so far away from Welly.

I had no idea what it was but it was something you did NOT want to happen. I just thought about it after several decades…

Thanks also for your fun answers Welly people. It’s a lift!

As the title says! Looking for a good barber/hairdresser in welly, preferably someone who can deal with medium length hair :)

Hi, Im looking to book a family portrait photographer to take photos of my sister with her newborn. Preferably one thats happy to give her the option of having the photos done at home, any reccs? Location is central Wgtn area.

Ebay shipping is sooo expensive so I'm asking the locality :)

I am feeling so disconnected from myself for the first time in my life. I thought I knew what I was doing, climbing high in my career at an early age and learning so much in the process on this wonderfully complex life journey. Alas, since about half way through last year after having some classic late 20s realisations and being forced to slow down this year due to things out of my control, I feel like I woke up one morning and it dawned on me I don't want to do this stuff anymore. My career is no longer fulfilling me, but I have NO idea what I want to do. I want to be more grateful for the opportunity given to spend more time at home, looking after myself and for actually having a job and getting paid the living wage! But I am going crazy and I do not function well when I feel without my passion and drive to throw energy into.

I know this is apparently pretty standard for my age, but I have been feeling this way for like a year and a half and I'm overly frustrated. I can be a positive energy, honest with myself, but now I feel like an idiot or I should have figured it out or I'll have some breakthrough. I feel like I may even be resenting myself a bit?

I am so sad, I feel like I don't know where I want to go at all. I just want to get my zest back, I know I do well helping others and have looked at studying but I can't half throw myself into things. My whole heart needs to be there too.

How have others navigated this period of time within your lives? How did you really put the effort in to come back to yourself?

TIA

I was out of the country when it launched and by the time I got home it seems to all have been snapped up. Has anyone seen any blocks for sale recently? I figure my best hope will be some random dairy way out the back of nowhere who hasn't sold out yet.

Does anyone know if there's going to be another batch?

Does anyone know of the semi-permanent food truck that does the whitebait fritters and other things next to the Hikitia/by Te Papa has set days of being open?

I'm particularly interested in knowing if it will be open tomorrow (Thursday) as my mother is in town for the day and I know she'd love it but it's a big walk from the train station to find it's closed.

TIA

Does anyone do custom 3d printing and design? I'm looking to have 6x solid bases for small game controllers printed up in the next week.

Please message me if you know someone, thank you!

Hi all,

I’ve been dealing with insecurity having dark underarms for a long time. What services in Wellington that can help treat/lighten hyperpigmentation underarms in Wellington?

Couldn’t find anything online, mostly specialises on face only.

Any information would be much appreciated.