Returning home

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All adventures come to an end, and it’s often not easy to leave the wilds behind to come home. On Monday the 5th of December, I flew home from Dunedin to Rotorua after three weeks in the Southern Ocean, visiting New Zealand’s subantarctic islands. I feel immensely privileged to have had the opportunity to return to these majestic islands after visiting on a scholarship in December/January last year. The last few weeks have been an experience like no other.  

I have a lot of photos to wade through, and lot of my life to sort out at the moment. As such, blogs may yet be a while in coming. Please bear with me, I will do my best to get things rolling as quickly as possible! In the meantime, enjoy a few previews from the trip in this blog – some of my favourite moments in a long list of wonderful experiences. 

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Snow-topped Macquarie Island, Lusitania bay King penguin colony.
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Zodiac cruising at Antipodes Island, in Ringdove bay.
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Stormy seas leaving the Bounty Islands – Salvin’s albatross.
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Southern Royal Albatross pair courting on Campbell Island.

  

Edin

Seabird scientist and conservation photographer working in Aotearoa New Zealand.

This Post Has 2 Comments

  1. Ern

    20 Feb 2020 Reply

    Thanks for the blog. Reading it with interest having signed up for this year’s Birding Down Under trip. And I’ve ordered your book!
    Cheers,
    Ern

    1. Edin

      1 Mar 2020 Reply

      Thanks Ern! Enjoy the voyage – it’s a truly spectacular introduction to the subantarctic islands. I hope you enjoy the book too!

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