Posts by David Hood
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From the Dunedin Botanic Gardens, just back from an evening constitutional.
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I suspect that an element of motorist hostility to cyclists is caused by the view that "It is against the natural order for anything to go faster than a car at any time" (especially if the car is stuck in traffic).
"Roads were not built for cars" appeared in the Gaurdian late last year, which I found kind of interesting:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2013/apr/16/roads-not-built-for-cars-book
which lead me to find out about the shaming campaign of the auto lobby and the boy scouts that gave the roads to cars, bringing in the term jaywalking in the 1930s
http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-invention-of-jaywalking-was-a-massive-shaming-campa-858926923
have a search through Papers Past of the period finds similar things at work in NZ. -
Tunnel beach, because in Dunedin’s early days the Cargill family had a tunnel dug to an otherwise inaccessible beach to give themselves a private beach.
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Tunnel beach, Dunedin. The first three are from the trail to the beach.
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It is a lovely sunny day. This skink seemed to be enjoying it. I think it is an Otago skink.
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Leigh, the spoonbill was in the city end of Blanket Bay, so out towards Port Chalmers.
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Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to Jos,
As for tripods, heavy is good,
The heavier the better, I would say, up to the level you are prepared to actually take places. I tend to only have I tripod with me if I really think I'll be needing it, for gaining a little bit of ad-hoc stability I have a string tripod (1/8inch bolt, string, and a couple of washers at the end of the string to make standing on the ends easy) in my camera bag and if I use the camera strap against may neck as a third stability it helps a little.
My camera was actually wound into a tripod this evening, in case the possible auroras came to anything, so I wouldn't forget the tripod if I went out. While it is starting to look a lot like the 60% chance of a hit on the earth is a miss, rather than just late, people in the south should keep an eye on the forecast tomorrow (initial reports were for a possible G1 tonight, G3 tomorrow, which is pretty strong). I tend to consult the Ovation forecast and just add 13 hours to sort out the time zones
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Nora, nice placement.
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Spoonbill and body guards, Otago Harbour
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Longbeach Road, Otago Harbour
