aviary awesomary

Today it was a beautiful day so I left work early and went for a walk/jog in the park. I stumbled across an aviary. It had talking parrots and lots of crazy looking birds. Of course, I did not have my camera but I will go back and take pictures soon.

awesome!

Brain Images in Different Fluorescents....

Hoechst nuclear staining of apoptotic cell death!

astrocytes stained with GFAP!

Ah memories...

Picture Madness

Hey everyone,

instead of posting a few images I am going to give you a behind the scenes like experience by showing you all the picture taken on this trip. The link for this is:

http://picasaweb.google.com/PirateGillie/NewZealand201002?authkey=Gv1sRgCKSA4PegksK1Yw

Enjoy! and please leave comments!

Gillian

Road Trip Madness

Well, since the last post a lot has happened. I will post many pictures of this within the next 24 hours, as I do not have the means to right now.

However, this is what has happened, try to imagine if you will

Two crazy awesome people, one sweet ride and an open road (for reals, there is no traffic here at all). First we drove to Fjordland and took a scenic cruise in Milford Sound, it was pretty awesome, we saw more penguins and seals and boated under the waterfall of youth. Then we went on to Te Anau, where our hotel was. Here we also went on a tour of the underwater caves and saw glowworms, pretty sweet, ay. The next day was pretty laid back we woke up and did some shopping, not for gifts for you guys...and then drove to Wanaka where we went to Puzzlingworld. There was a giant 2 story labyrinth which we completed and some crazy optical illusions. Then we drove to Fox Glacier, in the process having to dodge the animals that were darting out onto the road. We woke up early the next day and hiked up fox glacier. This was pretty intense, for me anyway, Amanda breezed through it. It was beautiful up on the ice though. Definitely worth the hellish hike. We then drove (forever) to Christchurch which is where we currently are. We are staying in a sweet hostel, which was a working jail up until 1999. The facilities are awesome, and apparently some of the old inmates will come stay here to see how much it has changed. Pretty sweet stuff. Today we are headed to Antarctica to see penguins and the like and then back to Dunedin.

So yeah, that's what's been going on. Picture blog to come!

Gillian

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Dunedin is the wildlife capital of New Zealand.

True story. There are lots of awesome animals here. Now predominantly, this is going to be a picture post!!! as I am able to upload pictures thanks to the safe arrival of my BFF! Her first day here was pretty chill, we went into town where we got rained on pretty heavily. It hasn't actually fully stopped raining since Amanda got here, but it should be clearing up soon. Today we drove up to the peninsula and observed a lot of nature (see pictures) The pictures actually go backwards and some are not oriented correctly. Sorry, I am new at this blogging thing.

This was a really cool rainbow that we saw at the end of the tour. It was awesome.

This is a yellow eyed penguin who just swam into shore and was headed for the sandy rocks when we were leaving.

Little family of yellow eyed penguins. There are less than 5000 of these penguins in the entire world, we saw four of them. That's a pretty good percentage I think.

Amanda and I and a friendly sea lion. They were all very friendly and not scared of humans. Most of them were born in this area and since humans walk around them all the time but don't harm them, they are not scared of us!

Did I mention all of the little fur seal pups there were? They were adorable and they have big black eyes due to their need to hunt at night.

Amanda and I at the peak of the nature reserve, really pretty view behind us. We may have been standing in sheep droppings at this point.

Really cool view of the land.

I don't remember what this is called, but I thought this was an awesome bird with it's red eyes. We had to stop the car to take a picture of it. EDIT: It is called a red billed gull.

Little baby royal albatross, we also saw some adults flying but the babies were cuter because they are sooo fluffy!
There are lots of signs like these around NZ and they make me giggle. I like that they tell you how far to london and the south pole and the toilets....

Cool view of the ocean and the beach.

This is the crossroads for the building in which I work. Notice, they are great king street and frederick street. Dad, you're welcome.

This house is called the shrieking shack. Harry Potter fans may now giggle.