Some $&*%# decided it would be nice idea to break into my car, take it for a joy ride, get drunk whilst at it, then drive it to the top of Signal Hill in Dunedin, put the handbrake on and floor it till the rims hit the tarmac then once it wouldn’t move any further set it on fire!!! Luckilly I was insured, so I only lost $50 on the car.
Here’s what it looked like before they got hold of it.
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Interviewer was Geoff Yorston.
Mark Hareb, my flatmate Dars and myself went tramping on the Silverpeaks route, just out of Dunedin. Things started badly when my giant three liter bottle of water split only half an hour into the tramp. I carried it in for another hour and ditched at the turnoff where we would be arriving back to later in the day.
The route is quite old and hasn’t been maintained in a long time so picking out where you’re supposed to go was tricky. We didn’t get lost though 🙂 However, later in the day the wind picked up incredibly strong. We were getting knocked off our feet all the time and we started to run out of water!
After much cursing from Dars and me getting quite dehydrated, we eventually made our way off the ridges, hence away from the wind and back to the water bottle I ditched earlier in the day.
All up it took us just over 13 hours to complete the tramp. En route I twisted my ankle a few times which I didn’t think was a major drama, however a week later was when I twisted the same ankle again and broke my leg 🙁
I headed through to go partying with Anna and her friends in Queenstown. I took these photos on the way back home.
I went to see some of the special stages of the Rally of Otago with Scott and Marthah (my brother and his fiance). Lots of sideways action, dust, noise and excitement. The photos didn’t turn out too well, my camera lens got quite dirty and I didn’t realise till after I uploaded them 🙁
Valerie and I went to see the Dunedin Street race and took a bunch of really cool photos. Erm, then I lost all those really cool photos 🙁 But we also went to tunnel Beach and I took the following photo on my EXTREMELY shonky phone camera.
EDIT: Found ’em! Here’s Valerie eyeing up a hotdog.
and Valerie about to swallow it whole!
Some photos from my trip to the the West Coast with Anna.
Karl Wieghardt was visiting the Brooker Bunch and whilst here he found out he’d made the worlds first iron(VI) compound! While celebrating at Eureka, Sally arranged this cake with six silver candles to represent his new discovery.
For any of you non-chemists, discovering iron(VI) is pretty huge! Iron is almost always found in the +2 and +3 states so 6+ is completely nuts! There’s some more information about it here … http://www.news.wisc.edu/12636
After our trip around the West Coast, Anna and I headed over to Lake Hawea and Wanaka via the Haast pass.
Anna went on an adventure to the West Coast of New Zealand. Some seriously wet weather awaited us!
