I should use my superlatives more carefully. Because if yesterday’s swell was impressive, the waves that shook Jackson Head today were tremendous! However, when I first came to the Wharekai Te Kou walk car park I could only suspect that. I dropped off Hongo-san and Kamai at the car park – the Ida-sans and Sam...
Wow! Yesterday’s swell was good, but today it was impressive. Huge wave monsters stormed towards Jackson Head and crashed with a thunder onto the rocks when we headed out to the site just around lunchtime. Although it was still 3 hours until high tide, it was really difficult to get through without being washed off...
In which the acquaintance of two interesting, surprisingly untimid Tawaki is made.
Sitting on a desk all day is quite nice sometimes, but usually I prefer field work. A lot. And today was a prime example why that is so. For most of the day the weather was gorgeous. Hongo-san was back in business, the two Ida-san’s and Sam were back from filming Tawaki swimming in creeks....
A day dominated by desk work as Hongo-san's sickness prevents filming.
The first day back at Jackson Head since almost two weeks and lots of juvenile tawaki have arrived.
Return to Haast for more tawaki fliming with the Japanese crew.
A day with little about penguins and a lot of house cleaning followed by a long drive back to Dunedin.
In which we're getting our last logger bird back and conclude this year's field work.
We finally figure out how to outwit the penguins (and not vice versa) and get a logger back.
