Today (Thursday January 15) we arrived on Macquarie Island! We departed from Invercargill, NZ on Monday January 12 aboard the MV Orion. Here's a photo of her at dock.
We saw, among other things, lots of sea lions, and this rare yellow-eyed penguin (if you look closely, you can see his yellow eyes).
Later in the afternoon, we had a landing on nearby Auckland Island. As you can see, there is some large woody vegetation on Auckland.
Here's a tree that was carved by sailors in 1845 (I think that's the date carved into it) pointing the way to stores left for shipwrecked sailors.
The Orion is a beautiful ship, and we were treated very well, but all were very happy to get off and start working on Macquarie. Next time: photos of Maquarie.
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