fantail

nz falcon up the hawdon valley

Double whammy

This week you get a pictorial tour of my holiday to the North Island (minus the ones of me in my knitted swimsuit cos those just shouldn't ever be made public).

Lake Wakaremoana/iti nice. boots too small. nasty feet. whirinake gorgeous. boots too small. couldn't walk.

Rotorua fun. conference boring. best student talk. $500 cheque. tequila shot. vomit. nice.

the flight home from rotorua was not nice. hungover. cancelled flight. 3.5hr bus to auckland. lost bags (thankfully not mine). lost car (again thankfully not mine).

phd symposium the next day was a little stressful. changed timetable. still asleep and hour before my talk. best biodiversity talk. $100 cheque. no tequila!

Need holiday from holiday!

There was a canyon in whirinaki

Lake Waikaremoana

where there were swallows

and swans

and a cinabar moth

Lake Waikareiti was nice and sunny

and then it turned to custard!

mental note to self: buy bigger boots!!

ewww

holiday time

well almost...heading up to hamilton and te urewera national park tomorrow for a camping holiday before going to rotovegas for a conference. conference sahould be interesting - michelle and I have fashioned ourselves woollen bathing suits to wear to the dinner - very sexy and a tad itchy (and yes, the dinner is fancy dress and we are not just being weird). i should also add that there will be NO photos posted!!

Speaking of photos, I sort of accidentally ended up putting one of mine in an exhibition and it has been sold!! Twice!! how cool is that.

Speaking of selling things, Michelle and I have been getting into this screenprinting caper and have been wearing our shirts to uni (unfortunately usually the same ones on the same day) but people keep asking where we got them from and whether or not they can order some for xmas!! fun

i'll be back in two weeks or so with fun camping pics :o)

wrybill

black fronted terns

braided river birds

imagine getting paid $20/hr to jet boat 30 km up a river and then walk back down, counting birds. This has been my past week and next week hopefully as well!! the whole thing made much more exciting by having to launch oneself onto and off of a jetboat as it is drifting past in order to get to the next island. Amazingly, i have managed to do this without badly injuring myself (yet) - just a nice case of badly bruised jetboat knee.

looking up the waimak from bealey spur

moeraki boulders

lake pukaki