Wednesday #Wildlife - Southern Bell Frog

September 04, 2012  •  Leave a Comment
New Zealand has three frog species introduced from Australia in the 1800s. This along with a four native and very archaic Leiopelmid frogs make up all the amphibians we have. The frogs have not been immune to the global amphibian decline and many of these Australian frogs have disappeared from former ranges. I found this Southern Bell Frog (orig...
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Tuesday #Travel: Sunset

September 03, 2012  •  Leave a Comment
A shot from the West Coast of the South Island. The sun is starting to set, giving the sky a red hue. The West Coast is one of the best places in New Zealand to do landscape photography, with the proviso you have to be there when it's not raining:)
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Time for a cool change

September 02, 2012  •  Leave a Comment
Last Wednesday in Auckland had the coincidence of clear skies, cool temperatures and a study-break on campus. I put in for leave for the day, and then went off to explore the Mokoroa Stream in Goldies Bush. This is an area of native forest, some of it regenerating, between Waitekere and Muriwai. I hadn't been there before, so I tried to travel ligh...
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Wednesday #Wildlife : Don’t Blink

August 29, 2012  •  Leave a Comment
It's a bit of a belated Wednesday blog post as I went feral yesterday and disappeared into some native bush for the day. That will have to be the subject of a different blog post of course. Anyway, this pic is of that very impressive, very large and redoubtable Estuarine crocodile. Most of the body mass is kept concelaed under the waterline. At...
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Tuesday #Travel – TCM shops

August 27, 2012  •  Leave a Comment
This pic is of a row of Traditional Chinese Medicine shops at the Xi'an market. For the most part, the ingredients for TCM are plants and fungi. Animal parts make up a minority of treatments. The purpose of the visit here was to scope out the market and see if claims that endnagered animal parts are 'sold openly' via the TCM system were true. We...
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