Anna, Harry and myself road-tripped from Dunedin to Alexandra to do a night skate on the Manorburn dam, then headed to Poolburn reservoir the next morning to skate on mega thick ice at Poolburn reservoir, then finished our journey by travelling through to Lake Tekapo for a hockey tournament between the Killer Keas (our team) and the Christchurch Rangers.
The Killer Keas hockey team took to the ice at Poolburn reservoir to brush up their skating skills before heading north to Lake Tekapo. Skating conditions were a little average due to the snow, but there was no shortage of ice (up to 15 cm thick in some parts) and lots of fun to be had enjoying the scenery.
Some photos showing the beauty of the frozen Poolburn reservoir this winter.
Thanks to Dave Young, Alan Knowles and Dave Patchett for taking me along on their ice skating trip to Central Otago. We had beautiful ice, up to 10 cm thick, at Poolburn Dam. We circumnavigated the entire lake (~20 km), most of which was beautifully smooth near-black ice. There are a lot more photos to come, but here’s a few quick snapshots from the weekends activities until I find the time to process the rest of them.
For more information about the trip, check out Dave Young’s blog post.
More Formula 1 photos. Nigel Mansell’s World Championship winning Williams Renault this time.
A photo of mine from the Heidelberg Castle has been used in the documentary “Louis Pasteur: The Space of life“. The image used is from the chemistry laboratory at the castle and was used as the background for the laboratory of Jean Baptiste Biot, the man who discovered the chiral nature of tartaric acid.
As you can see below, they’ve zoomed in, then shrunk it, flipped it horizontally and used it as a background for scenes showing Louis Pasteur and Jean Baptiste Biot. It seems ironic to me that they used a mirror image for the background of a documentary about chirality :p
The documentary can be viewed on the LaRouche website:
My photo can be seen in the background between 6:20 – 7:46 and 19:58 and 22:02.
The Killer Keas ice hockey team, bronze medalists in the Dunedin Ice Hockey League Autumn season.
Thanks to Jaydee Cabral for providing the photo and Anna Craw for taking it.
More photos from my trip Cockles Creek in 2007. You can see the first batch of photos on the original Cockles Creek post.
More photos from the oldest Prison in Hobart. These are leftover photos I forgot to publish during my first visit to Hobart. Check out my first post about this prison from 2007.
