K is for Kaikoura: seabird heaven

Out to sea from Kaikoura

The meds worked! I managed just fine for the few hours out to sea, the jet boat was fast and felt safe too, Tracy a fine skipper and bird guide. I did not need the binocs, even the birds on the wing were close enough to get a good sighting, like the Buller's Shearwater.

Much excitement for a new species on my world list, a Fairy Prion and for catching a glimpse of a Hutton's Shearwater, an endemic whose breeding is restricted to the mountains around Kaikoura, the Seaward's, and an increasingly endangered bird.

White-capped Mollymawk