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.

Valerie staring out to sea at Tunnel Beach

EDIT: Found ’em! Here’s Valerie eyeing up a hotdog.

Valerie Paquin eyeing up a hotdog

and Valerie about to swallow it whole!

Valerie Paqui munching down the hotdog

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

Karl Wieghardt Iron(VI)

Debbies 21st

I went down to Invercargill to celebrate Debbie’s birthday. Debbie is a fellow chemistry geek and one of the awesomest people I know. Happy 21st Debbie 🙂

Debbie Jordan - birthday cake

Blowing, blowing, blowing …

Debbie Jordan blowing out her candles

BLOWN!

Debbie Jordan blown

The speeches: So what did Carla say that made Debbie squirm so much?

Debbie Jordan squirming