Astonishing!  And near my home too.

Congratulations to the WCC staff who have planted pine trees on a ridge leading up to the Mt Victoria lookout. I feared they were too enmeshed in botanical chauvinism to risk such a sensible step.

Other areas from which pines and macrocarpas have been felled have been replanted in native trees. All very well except that they grow to form gloomy dense stands. Views are then confined to slips and deliberately cut view shafts. It is only an impression, but far fewer people seem to use the paths through the native bush areas than through the open needle decked glades of  mature pines and eucalypts. 

Thank you Wellington City Council.