17 April 2026 Report

OVERVIEW

Fine, some cloud cover, 26C. <10 knot westerly winds, increasing. Seas <0.5m. Sea surface temperatures 23.7C.

TRIP SUMMARY

April can be unpredictable and often trips during this time of year can produce something unexpected. Unfortunately this wasn't going to be one of those trips. The weather was pleasant enough though.

We had very little interest in our offerings on the voyage out. The few Wedge-tailed Shearwaters were slowly replaced by Flesh-footed Shearwaters around halfway out. At the drift we had good numbers of Wilson's Storm-Petrels and added a Black-browed melanophrys "Campbell" Albatross to the mix.

BIRD LIST

(Note that the numbers in parentheses represent the approximate maximum number of that species in view at one time)

Silver Gull	40
Greater Crested Tern	8	(3)
Little Penguin	1	(1)
Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross	1
Shy Albatross	1	(1)
Black-browed Albatross	2	(1)
Campbell Albatross	1
Wilson's Storm Petrel	27	(23)
Providence Petrel	5	(2)
Flesh-footed Shearwater	56	(50)
Wedge-tailed Shearwater	38	(35)
Sooty Shearwater	1
Hutton's Shearwater	1	(1)
Fluttering-type Shearwaters	1
Australasian Gannet	8	(2)

OTHER

Inshore Bottlenose Dolphin
Dwarf minke
Flyingfish

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