Monday, 19 February 2018

Day 12

Outstanding weather still holding.   Sunny and hot.  Today we had two tours:

Tour 1 was a boat ride to spot albatrosses (albatrossi?).  Fantastic tour.  We got to see 4 different albatross species, as well as shearwaters, and a couple of different kinds of petrels.  At one point there were 10 different albatross around us.  We also got to see dozens of dolphins.

Tour 2 was also a boat ride, but for whale watching.  It's not whale season here, but we did manage to see a couple.  The first one we saw was a first for us as well - a sperm whale.  We have seen humpbacks, minkes, belugas and even a fin whale, but never a sperm whale.  They aren't that easy to see because they can dive for up to 90 minutes at a time.

Later we saw a humpback with a bunch of dolphins.  Even saw a breach, but no photos of that.

Perfect day.

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