A local bird of prey: the cara cara
heavy load
Feeding the young gentoo chick
a turkey vulture in its natural environment
Two albatri landed next to me. Unforgettable
The jetty, formerly used for wool and resupply, then for landing troops, now used for nesting
Han on the rocks above the settlement
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The yellow bobble is their feeding pouch and shows when they’ve eaten a lot
The Islander
Getting up at first light is worth it.
The Gentoos still around, moulting
Parking up to go find a cave
Port Stephens, a breathtaking lunch stop
The camping spot as it looked – beat that!
Feeding the young (Gentoo)
Han’s best impression
Tiring, being a seal
Heading out
The smokey eye
The sooty shearwaters, dots in the sunset
This sangar came with a view
Fishing for mullet in front of the house at sunset. Lovely stuff
Zoran used his dirtbike to add some decoration
The colony at sunset
A turkey vulture makes use of the Gentoo colony
Traffic on the roads
1968 Argentine 105mm gun,Wireless Ridge
Nightheron fishing
Plenty of the endangered Black Browed Albatross hanging about too
This time around, not all had made it to life
Nice place, shame about the…
The summit slabs of Mt William
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Lunch with the Lady
The Welsh Guards’ memorial
Atlantic Conveyor Memorial and Cape Pembroke lighthouse
Sunset at the colony
A sealion floats into shore
Stunning walks to be had
Guarding the baby
The gentoos take to their beach while a sea lion menacingly surfs behind
Quite a place, Wireless Ridge
Han helping Conservation take care of an oiled penguin
King Penguin
Sadly, not all of the chicks make it like this Magellanic oenguin egg.
Giving the elephant seal its name
My favouraite – holding the characterful Rockhopper having relieved it of its GPS anklet. Their numbers have diminished by 90% in the last 30 years.
C130 Herc flypast
A sizable sea lion made an appearance nearby
Perfect for posing in penguin poo
Rocky sunset
The sunset the following day
We three kings
Clambering on the shipwrecks in the Canache
Blue skies but windy!
There old jetty, once the source of everything arriving on the Island
Han ticks the main one off the list – p-p-p-picking up a penguin
Our friend follows shortly behind us
Shipwrecks aplenty look excellent from the air
Wingspan!
Had to be done…
The inlet at Fitzroy
This had been there a bit too long
An engine with the rotors visible in the background
The dogs in their habitat; aboard a quad
