GAK67 Report This Comment Date: November 25, 2008 10:31PM
There's my home town!!! Thanks \ for that!
90130_ Report This Comment Date: November 26, 2008 12:52AM
Look at all those sheep!!
90130_ Report This Comment Date: November 26, 2008 01:05AM
North Island?
GAK67 Report This Comment Date: November 26, 2008 01:39AM
90130_ That is the top half of the South Island and the bottom bit of the North
Island. The town I grew up in is at the southern most point of the large bay at
the top of the South Island. It is a beautiful part of the world and has a
great climate, awesome beaches, clear water rivers, etc. Unfortunately it is a
small city with limited work opportunities and no decent tertiary education
facilities, so I have not lived there since 1986. I now live about the middle
of the North Island, which is not shown in the pic. Damn I miss the beach!
90130_ Report This Comment Date: November 26, 2008 02:52AM
It must be truly awesome in real life. All I know of NZ is from all of the
tourism info I've gleaned from the web, and a crazy Kiwi friend of mine that I
ride sportbikes with.
Anne Onymouse Report This Comment Date: November 26, 2008 10:51PM
Nelson? I've been there.....!
GAK67 Report This Comment Date: November 27, 2008 12:15AM
Well done Anne! Nelson (named after the famous English Admiral, Lord Horatio
Nelson) was the city I was referring to. I actually lived about 20km from the
city in a small town called Brightwater, famous for being the birthplace of
Ernest Rutherford, the first person to split the atom (although most of his
research was done at Cambridge, England and Montreal, Canada).
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: November 27, 2008 01:57AM
what does he win?
GAK67 Report This Comment Date: November 27, 2008 08:15AM
Anne - nothing. Lord Rutherford - The Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
woberto Report This Comment Date: November 27, 2008 11:57AM
I can see the hobbits!
Actually, some dumb chick astronaut let go of a hundred grand toolkit, you can
see her in her D'oh! moment on youtube.
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au.youtube.com]
Even weirder is some amateur astronomer actually spotted it with a telescope
orbiting all on it's lonesome.