Tag: Travel

  • Photography From New Zealand

    Photography From New Zealand

    A sampling of my photos from my latest research trip to NZ, more of which can be found on my flickr page and here!

  • Becoming a Real Scientist & Returning to Canadiana

    Becoming a Real Scientist & Returning to Canadiana

    Hail and well met, blog readers! It’s been a while. One whole month to be precise. Which I spent working in the field collecting data for my Master’s research on weta, those crazy giant nocturnal crickets I like to think about! I unfortunately was not able to keep y’all in the loop while I was…

  • Sunburnt, Barefoot, and Cradling a Six-pack

    Sunburnt, Barefoot, and Cradling a Six-pack

    Only in New Zealand do I ever end up fitting the description in this title. Yes, this is how we found ourselves at the end of my latest travel excursion: a stumbling tomato-red UV-destroyed lump just hoping to clutch together the disintegrating cardboard holding a 6 pack of Coronas for one more block back to the hostel.…

  • Mountains, Squirrels, and PIKAS

    Mountains, Squirrels, and PIKAS

    The travel bug really is a disease and you can only stave it off so long, before you run off to the mountains due to literal cabin fever. (See what I did there? Oh me.) After my travels in New Zealand I found myself prohibitively broke and only recently accrued enough funds to responsibly wander off…