Christchurch

Since leaving Princeton and Spider, I have been heading down to Antarctica for the BLAST-Pol flight campaign (on which Tristan has already made several posts in my absence). Because everything ran on schedule (somehow), I spent only one full day in Christchurch: gear issuing in the morning, and a bit of exploring in the afternoon.

The day was spent with a group of people from the WISSARD project, who had been staying at the same hotel as me. Being biologists, they were full of fun information at the botanical gardens.

USAP CDC

Clothing Exchange

The gateway to the land of parkas

CDC storeroom - panorama

Stock is low right now, because it's already pretty late in the season

Parkas

Boots

Interesting tree

Symbiosis

Flowers

Bumblebee

Buds and blooms

Sun dial

Pink rose

Strange sculpture

In which you spray water at carved faces to make them spin around

Container mall

Located downtown, amongst much damage from the 2010/2011 eathquakes

Shipping containers

In mall form

Big Ups

Castle in the sky

Made of bottles