Buller's Albatross (Thalassarche bulleri) with Stewart Island in the background

Buller's Albatross

Buller's Albatross

Buller's Albatross

Buller's Albatross with Stewart Island in the background

Buller's Albatross

Buller's Albatross with Stewart Island in the background

Buller's Albatross - I love the way their head rotates

Buller's Albatross
(Yeah I know - so many birds! At sea there isn't much else to look - I'm no twitcher!)

The Snares - A calm sea greeted us on our arrival at dawn. The view is towards the south showing the silhouette of Broughton Island

The Snares at dawn

The Spirit of Enderby at anchor to the east of North East Island, the Snares

Snares Crested Penguins (Eudyptes robustus)

Snares Crested Penguins

Cape Pigeons (Daption capense) feeding at the Snares

Richie in the water beside the penguin slope at the Snares

Snares Crested Penguins at the bottom of the penguin slope

Richie

Hooker's Sea Lion at Station Cove, the Snares

Underwater at the Snares

Over-under shot at the Snares with penguins on rocks in the background

Snares Crested Penguins at Station Cove, the Snares

Snares Crested Penguins

At sea en route to Campbell Island

Campbell Island Shags (Phalacrocorax campbelli)

Campbell Albatross (Thalassarche impavida) at Campbell Island

Albatrosses in their hunderds at Campbell Island

Albatrosses at Campbell Island

Hooker's Sea Lion bull at Campbell Island

Richie with Hooker's Sea Lion at Campbell Island

Richie with Hooker's Sea Lion at Campbell Island

Hooker's Sea Lion (juv. male) at Campbell Island

Our first and only dive at Campbell Island - Davis Point at the entrance to Perseverance Harbour.
Conditions early in the morning were a little gloomy. Water temperature was a brisk 8°C.
The white blobs in this photo and the one below are a pair of nudibranchs - Atagema carinata.

The kelp in the background, Macrocystis pyrifera, set the scene for most of our subantarctic dives

Rock encrusted with calcareous algae, sponges, stars, a mollusc or two, hydroids and ascidians

Campbell Island

Macrocystis kelp forest at Campbell Island

Crabs on the bottom at Campbell Island

Campbell Island

Campbell Island Teal (Anas nesiotis) at the jetty in Perseverance Harbour

Richie at Campbell Island

Southern Royal Albatross (Diomedea epomophora) at Campbell Island

Southern Royal Albatross at Campbell Island

Megaherbs at Campbell Island
Pleurophyllum criniferum to the left with Pleurophyllum speciosum purple daisies to centre and right, interspersed with Bulbinella rossii.

Megaherbs at Campbell Island
Pleurophyllum speciosum purple daisies with Bulbinella rossii (withered yellow flower head in the foreground)

Megaherbs at Campbell Island

Southern Royal Albatorss on the Col Lyall track, Campbell Island. The head of Northeast Harbour can be seen in the background

Richie with Southern Royal Albatorss

Me with the Spirit of Enderby at anchor in Perseverance Harbour in the background. Photo courtesy of Richie

Departing Campbell Island late in the day heading north west towards the Auckland Islands

Zodiac cruise, Carnley Harbour, Auckland Islands (near Victoria Passage)

Outside Victoria Passage near South West Cape, Auckland Islands, looking to the south east.
The western end of Adams Island can be seen to the right.

Zodiac cruise, Western Harbour at the western end of Carnley Harbour, Auckland Islands, looking to the south.
The western end of Adams Island is straight ahead to the right of centre. Victoria Passage is around the corner past the headland on the right hand side.

Auckland Islands

Auckland Islands

Auckland Islands

We didn't see many fish during our dives in the subantarctic but three different species can be seen in this photo

Auckland Islands

Auckland Islands

Auckland Islands

Auckland Islands

Hookers sea lion, probably a juvenile male, Carnley Harbour, Auckland Islands. He had a red tag attached to his front right flipper numbered 3592

Auckland Islands

Auckland Islands

An eastern headland of the Auckland Islands as we steam from Carnley Harbour up to Port Ross late in the day

Trapania rudmani nudibranch at Butterfield Point, Enderby Island, Auckland Islands

Fish - a notothenid of some description I think, Enderby Island, Auckland Islands

Crab, Enderby Island, Auckland Islands

Crab, Enderby Island, Auckland Islands

Enderby Island, Auckland Islands

Purple flowers of an Enderby Island gentian (Gentiana sp.) surrounded by Bulbinella and Anisotome

Flowering megaherb Anisotome latifolia, Enderby Island, Auckland Islands

Enderby Island, Auckland Islands

Auckland Island Pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae aucklandicus) on Anisotome flower head, Enderby Island

Auckland Island Banded Dotterel (Charadrius bicinctus exilis), Enderby Islands

Yellow-eyed Penguin (Megadyptes antipode), Enderby Island, Auckland Islands

Yellow-eyed Penguin, Enderby Island, Auckland Islands

Hooker's Sea Lion, Enderby Island, Auckland Islands

Enderby Island, Auckland Islands
Southern Rata forest (Metrosideros umbellata), with Stilbocarpa polaris (Macquarie Island Cabbage) understory.

Flowering Southern Rata, Enderby Island, Auckland Islands

Flowering megaherb Anisotome latifolia, Enderby Island, Auckland Islands

Hooker's Sea Lions, Sandy Bay, Enderby Island, Auckland Islands

Hooker's Sea Lion pups, Sandy Bay, Enderby Island, Auckland Islands

Hooker's Sea Lions, Sandy Bay, Enderby Island, Auckland Islands

Hooker's Sea Lions, Sandy Bay, Enderby Island, Auckland Islands

Me with a friendly crab which crawled onto my camera while trying to photograph him, Butterfield Point, Enderby Island. Photo courtesy of Richie

Small decorator crab encrusted with hydroids, Butterfield Point, Enderby Island

Shrimp (perched on the back of a large crab), Butterfield Point, Enderby Island

Shrimp, Butterfield Point, Enderby Island

Hermit crab, Crozier Point, Auckland Island

Atagema carinata nudibranch, Crozier Point, Auckland Island

Hermit crab, Crozier Point, Auckland Island

Triplefin and hermit crab, Crozier Point, Auckland Island

Trapania rudmani nudibranch, Crozier Point, Auckland Island

Coastwatch station, Ranui Cove, Auckland Island

Coastwatcher's hut, Ranui Cove, Auckland Island

Coastwatcher's hut, Ranui Cove, Auckland Island

Richie with Southern Rata canopy above, Coastwatch station, Ranui Cove, Auckland Island

Dusky Dolphins joined us on a beautifully calm day en route from the Auckland Islands to Dunedin

Dusky Dolphin

Dusky Dolphin

Dusky Dolphin

Spirit of Enderby engine room