Archive for March, 2006

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)

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.

Lake Hawea

View of Lake Wakatipu and Queenstown from the top of the Queenstown gondola

West Coast trip with Anna

Anna went on an adventure to the West Coast of New Zealand. Some seriously wet weather awaited us!

Rain swept panoramic view of the shoreline of the West Coast of New Zealand from near the Pancake rocks

Rocky shore of the West Coast of New Zealand

A glacier