We sailed from Bluff on the Clan McLeod …
… a thirty hour passage. We arrived just after dark with no idea if the helicopter had managed to fly down that day or not.
As it happened the helicopter had arrived, so it lifted our gear and the drums of helicopter fuel to our land base on Enderby Island.
Our accommodation was the sea lion research station, normally only used between November and February – very comfortable.
There were possibly as many as a hundred southern right whales breeding in Port Ross, the sheltered inlet at the Northeast corner of the archipelago.
Lots of shy mollymauks flying around. Big birds! Very majestic.
One of the largest breeding colonies of yellow-eyed penguins is on Enderby Island with no cats or pigs to bother them. Here’s a picture of a penguin flying – sort of.
More to come…