I went on a jaunt westwards from Wānaka to a wee township called Clyde, in Central Otago.
My plan had been to do some astrophotography at the Clyde Dam. That didn’t go too well originally as the Milky Way was not where I thought it was going to be, the front of the dam was extremely lit up at night (killing any chance of doing Astro stuff with it) and there was no way to get across the dam. My original plan had been to go half way across the dam to photograph things from there, but the fence was pretty well saying ‘that ain’t gonna happen!’.
After a while I realised that you could get to the other side by going back into the little township and crossing a wee one-lane bridge there. From that side I was pretty well able to get some shots.
An hour or so later and a policeman pulled up in his wagon and said “what the hell are you doing and why are you parked in such a dumb place?” (paraphrasing). I explained the van battery saga & maybe needing to jumpstart it, showed him some pics and he chilled out “jolly good, I’ll leave you to it!” (more paraphrasing… a cop would never say ‘jolly good’).
