Walk through my old flat

You may be aware of Photowalk, a web thing I made some years ago where you can ‘walk’ though areas by going through a whole lot of photos I took, walking forwards between places and turning around at each place to see different angles. Earlier this summer I took a bunch of photos of my old flat, Kelp, and added them to Photowalk. You could start at the front door, or perhaps you would prefer to see my old room there.

Anyway, have a look around. There are 128 photos of Kelp there, of the 441 total.

Camping

As some of you will have known, I had been planning for some time to take a few days off shortly after finishing my exams and so on to go camping by myself, to get away from people and spend some time relaxing, thinking, contemplating and so on. As you may have noticed from my Twitter statuses, I did so this week. I left on Monday morning and got back yesterday afternoon. I ended up just going to Rimutaka Forest Park, which is a nice DOC campground fairly close to here. It was nice and quiet.

Walking, seals

Yesterday afternoon xyzzy mentioned on a certain IRC channel that he was going to walk out to Turakirae Head to see the fur seals, and invited anybody to join him. I was persuaded, so postponed the study I had to do until later that night (I ended up working until about 2:00 am, I think) and we went. Nobody else ended up coming. He picked me up and we drove as far as we could, then walked for a while to the head where the seals are. It was good to get outside; I think I spent more time outside than I have over the last several weeks, and the fresh air and walking was really good.

I took a few pictures. xyzzy took many more of better quality with his DSLR; hopefully he will put them online soon.

It is interesting that this happened the day after my last blog post, though presumable was uncorrelated.

Easter Sunday Sunrise pictures

I went to the Easter Sunrise dawn service at the Mount Victoria lookout carpark on Easter Sunday, and took a few photos. I have attached some of the better photos.