Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on those accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. ~Mark Twain

Thursday, 21 January 2010

Sperm Spot!

Managed to get a bit more of a start on the research in the past few days. Had a little training in using PAMGUARD, the acoustic software we use linked to the hydrophone. Also managed to get up to the land station on the peninusla, and spotted a few sperm whales and took some pictures.


South Bay, on the south side of the Kaikoura peninsula.

Yesterday I got my first trip out on Titi, our research boat. We found a sperm whale and followed it for four surfacings. Whilst heading out from our launch in South Bay we spotted a few NZ fur seals in the water, were joined by a lovely wandering albatross, and saw a shark fin break the surface.


Wandering Albatross
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