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Albatross
These are probably the best pictures I’ve ever taken. Not just because they look quite good but because they were taken from the front deck of a small-ish boat, standing up, hanging on desperately with one hand to the back of a seat while the boat heaved up and down in 1m+ waves. So that left me holding my D90 in one hand trying to follow the flight of this albatross as it wheeled about in the skies above the boat.
I have to hand it to the D90. As long as I kept the albatross in the viewfinder, it kept it in focus.
I did suffer for it though, after all that twisting my head about, I got quite seasick on the voyage back – and that was in much calmer seas.
These were all taken on the Monarch Wildlife Cruise just at the entrance to Otago Harbour. A great experience.
Seal pups
Taken near the entrance to Otago Harbour, Dunedin, from the boat of the Monarch Wildlife Cruise. This seal colony included these two pups with their mothers.
Very cute.
Sea lion
While in Dunedin, we went on a cruise (with Monarch Wildlife Cruises) which went out to the seal and albatross colonies at the entrance to Otago Harbour. I’ll post a few of the pictures I took on this cruise starting with this chap, a young sea lion sunning himself on the sands.
