The blurb for the latest Nanogirl Live! show – Bring on the Noise! – said ” In this interactive show filled with experiments,?explosions and music ? Nanogirl Live! brings science and engineering to life in the coolest ways?possible, right before your eyes“. Over an entertaining hour we watched Nanogirl and her trusty assistant Boris, along […]
School holidays trip to Timaru
The school holidays was once a time for us to avoid travelling in New Zealand, but that was back in the days of having a child who wasn’t school aged (or not having a child at all). Now we join the rest of the school-going NZ families in trying to find both things for our […]
Mana Island
Saturday saw us take up an opportunity to visit Mana Island off the coast from Porirua. The island was designated a scientific reserve in 1987 after a long history of colonisation and farming. Introduced pests and large mammals have been removed and in subsequent years over half a million trees have been planted and a […]
Photographing glowworms
I like to get out and photograph the sky at night. Living near Wellington at the bottom of the North Island of New Zealand there are a number of spots nearby that have low light pollution and subsequently very dark skies which helps when photographing features like the milky way and the occasional aurora australis […]