Saturday 25th rain promised but just cloudy and cool… They count the number of days over 20 degrees here. Not so many.
Puffin tour.
Starts with bald eagles following the boat out to the island. Some fish thrown from the boat, well done pickup.. Many soaring eagles several very close to the boat. Impressive flyers.
Mink on shore, mussel eater. Great cormorants, grey seals, many types of gulls, razorbills that look and fly like penguins and of course puffins galore.
Spectacular view of a puffin flying off the nesting rock cliff directly towards the boat.
After the Galapagos all viewings are pigeon equivalents. On this trip, about as long to get here as the Galapagos, the boat ride was cold and dry, compared to wet and hot on the zodiacs. Overall a good tour but wildlife of the Galapagos….
Tour finished with an interesting lecture on lobster fishing, hibernation, marketing, selection in restaurants – she is a lobster person when not running a tour company. No slacker her.
Dinner: Sydney lobster pound. Best cooked tails we have had ever; after some discussion agreed that the claws might be second out third to some others we have had on earlier trips.
Oink!
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