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Heading for the Whitsundays.

Sandbank

Noosa. Heading there next week.

Sometimes, it’s hard to believe that we live here.

Please let me know if you can free-associate a theme for these two pictures. I suspect they may be the least-related images ever captured by one person in one city.

In fact, I will buy one beer for a more orthoganal pair of images.

Sky garden, reflected.

Car carrier, excavators, blurred bus.

I’m stumped.

Alongside in Auckland.

Sensor array

5" Gun

The anthem says “God defend New Zealand.” This is how it’s actually done.

NZ again.

It’s almost painfully bright.

To the Botanic Gardens again, giving the deck time to dry before I re-seal it.

Bird of Paradise flower

Strange trunk

Gnarly trunk

Gnarlier vines

And a lizard:

We’re still learning how to use the telescope. Actually, we’re just starting to see the lower foothills of thr learning curve.

The moon was about 60° above the horizon in the early evening.

These were taken by holding my phone camera up to the 26mm eyepiece.

This next one was through the 15mm eyepiece.

We’ll get better at this.

There’s a lizard hiding in this picture.