(4K) Walk | 2024 Island Bay Festival Parade | February 2024 | New Zealand | DJI Osmo Pocket 3.

Come experience the 2024 Island Bay Festival Parade! Starting on Avon Street, lets enjoy going down The Parade (the main road in Island Bay) down to Shorland Park, near Island Bay Beach. After the Parade reaches Shorland Park, the Island Bay Festival opening ceremony takes place, followed by live performances, music, extra facilities for the kids to have fun, and stalls where you can buy gifts or food. Note this year the Bird Man & Blessing Of The Boats were cancelled due to a large front causing strong southerlies (cold winds from Antarctica). The weather did clear up and warm up throughout the Festival Day. Sunday 11 February, 2024, Day in the Bay.
Showcasing talent and diversity of the south coast, Island Bay is the first Wellington suburban annual festival held during the summer month of February each year (Summer months for Australia & New Zealand are December, January and February).
Island Bay is the largest most populated southern-most suburb of both Wellington, and the North Island of New Zealand, with a population of approximately 8,000 residents. Island Bay is located on the southern coastal fringe of Wellington (the capital, and second largest city of New Zealand). Its not too far from Wellington City, but far enough to escape most of the hustle & bustle of city life. Island Bay is an outer suburb of Wellington, located in Zone 3 of the Metlink public transport network, next to Cook Strait (sea separating the North Island & South Island of New Zealand).
WHAT MAKES ISLAND BAY SO SPECIAL?
- Horses! These are rare in Wellington. With a Facebook club known as Wellington City Light Horse Club incl. (a loved small community of horse owners and horses who reside in the southern coastal suburbs including Island Bay, who do regular weekly rides in public and take loads of selfies... lol...)
- Aquarium (Like the cheapest aquarium in NZ & Australia).
- The best bus service in the whole entire Wellington Region (high frequency 100% electric double decker bus services, operated by Tranzurban on behalf of Metlink).
- Nature lovers dream (plenty of trees and singing black birds).
- The beach.
- Parks & Playgrounds.
- Families, pets, and a strong sense of community and belonging.
- One of the safest suburbs in Wellington.
- Its own supermarket, cinema, pharmacy, post shop, and two main schools (Island Bay School & St. Francis de Sales School).
- Giant beautiful oak trees which line the west side of The Parade.
- Island Bay is a nice, kind, friendly, family/pet/nature orientated suburb.
Enjoy the video :)
AL,
(Alastair Wanoa, AL is my nickname)
island bay resident & youtuber,
Wellington, New Zealand (NZ).
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