The Dodo Dragon returns.
Now you can hear my story, “The Dodo Dragon” as a free podcast fromThe Way of the Buffalo read by R. E. Chambliss.
Month: May 2011
Really cool time lapse
Astronomy Picture of the Day is a great site. And yesterday they had a fantastic time lapse shot in the Teide national park in Tenerife.http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110516.htmlBut the coolest bit of all is that Daniel Lopez, who shot this video, will be giving a talk to us trainee Starlight Guides on Friday night. Sickening, aren’t I?
Las Nieves
I can’t believe that I haven’t written about Las Nieves church before. Las Nieves is a pretty hamlet, in the municipality of Santa Cruz, but about 2 km outside it as the crow flies. If you’re fairly fit, there’s a pretty (but rough and steep) footpath between the two. More importantly, Las Nieves has the most gorgeous church on the island. It’s also the oldest one, dating from at least…
Oh well.
I was supposed to do the volcanoes walk on Saturday night as part of my Starlight Guide course. I had mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, it’s 20 km, and starts with a 500m climb, which is obviously not ideal for a podgy writer with a bad case of Writer’s Bottom. On the other hand, it’s a famously beautiful walk, and I’ve always wanted to do it someday….
San Isidro Livestock Fair, 2011
This weekend they’re holding the second biggest livestock fair on the island, at San Isidro, in Breña Alta. (The biggest is San Antonio del Monte, in June). It starts off with a procession which brings the statue of the saint from the church to the fairground at 9 am on Saturday. People bring their animals, and there are prizes for the best milk cow, best bull, best goat, etc. Most…
The best laid plans…
Here’s what was supposed to happen:I was supposed to meet a group of 52 kids plus some adults at the observatory heliport at 9:45, give them a quick general talk about the observatory there, then take them up to the Isaac Newton Telescope, split the group in two, and take 26 kids+a few adults into the telescope at a time, and finish by 12:00 Here’s what actually happened:The kids’ bus…