I headed through to go partying with Anna and her friends in Queenstown. I took these photos on the way back home.
Rally of Otago
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 🙁
Tunnel Beach
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!
Photos of Anna on the West Coast
Some photos from my trip to the the West Coast with Anna.
Iron(VI)
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
Lake Hawea and Wanaka
After our trip around the West Coast, Anna and I headed over to Lake Hawea and Wanaka via the Haast pass.
