Ryan Hellyer

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  • Catlins with Andy and Jon

    Jon and I took our new Research Fellow down to the Catlins for some site seeing.

    Cathedral Caves in the Catlins

    Jon Kitchen and Andy Noble in front of McLean falls

    Me (Ryan Hellyer) in front of the Purakenui falls

    Tautuku Beach in the Catlins

    The rocks at Nugget Point

  • Royal Albatross colony

    I visited the Royal Albatross colony with a new flatmate. The colony is at the end of Otago Peninsula only 30 mins drive from Dunedin.

    Royal Albatross in flight #1

     

    Albatross far above

  • Brooker Bunch

    Here’s a photo of the Brooker Bunch, the research group (which I’m a member of) of Prof. Sally Brooker. From left: Jason Price, Nick White, Andy Noble, Sally Brooker, Jon Kitchen and Ryan Hellyer (me).

    Brooker Bunch 2006

  • Banks Peninsula Panoramas

    While visiting Cass in Christchurch I took these panoramas of Lyttleton harbour with Banks Peninsula in the background.

    Panoramic view of Banks Peninsula #1

    Panoramic view of Banks Peninsula #2

  • Toko Mouth

    Here’s some photos I took at my parents crib at Toko Mouth. A crib by the way (for you non South Islander’s) is a term we use for a holiday house. Toko Mouth is situated at the mouth of the Tokomaririro river 45 mins drive south of Dunedin.

    The mouth of the Tokomairiro river

    My parents crib at Toko Mouth

  • Yvette’s birthday bash

    We had yummy Chinese at the Golden Sun for Yvette’s birthday. We had a strange dish which had strange black thingies which made your mouth go numb when you ate them. If you know what those black thingies are called, please let me know in the comments as I’d love to try them again some time.

    Yvette and Ryan Hellyer (me)

  • Keg party in Calgary

    I had a key party at my flat in Calgary.

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    BF2-A002

  • Stock pot chemistry

    First came the number eight wire, now comes the stock pot 😛 We needed to scale up a reaction in the lab (potassium permanganate oxidation), so instead of repeating it a gazillion times, Sally suggested I got a big pot and scaled it up 🙂 Since giant beakers from Aldrich cost a fortune (and break easily), I went and found the biggest, baddest, cheapest stock pot I could find at the Warehouse (NZ equivilent of Walmart), stuck a mechanical stirrer in it, heated the blazes out of it with a regular sized heater stirrer and we had a massive scale (by our standards) reaction vessel 🙂

    Stock pot chemistry

    Nick White helped me with some of this work as part of his summer project.

    Nick White and the stock pot

  • Froggat Rd

    I drove Debbie and Brendon down to Invercargill. We stopped at the worlds most exciting bus stop – Froggat Rd.

    Debbie Jordan and Brendon at Froggat Rd


    … I am Milton …

  • To Christchurch with Debbie

    I headed up to Christchurch with Debbie. We road tripped with her friends Davin and Emma (Goose). We went to an engagement party of some people I’d never met, promptly disturbed them and headed back to Dunedin the next day 🙂

    Emma …

    Emma/Goose

    Debbie …

    Debbie Jordan looking very Matrix’ish

    Davin … you’ll need to use your imagination as the photo didn’t turn out well.