Scenes from penguinland

The second chapter of my National Geographic series Voyage of the Yellow-eyed Penguin: Penguins Wanted, actually involves penguins. Additional visual below.

My first penguin-monitoring station on a subantarctic island (I was pretty stoked to see four yellow-eyed penguins in four hours). Certainly can’t post this without acknowledging @edinzphoto’s amazing camo/neon combo gear loan (thanks, E!)

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Subantarctic sketches

Naturalist sketches from the subantarctic: ferns, red-billed gull, limpet, southern rātā, kelp (Chambres Inlet, New Zealand)

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Not sure why, but I really like skuas (sketched in subantarctic New Zealand)

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Voyage of the Yellow-eyed Penguin

My first of four stories about a voyage to the subantarctic!

Back from the subantarctics!

My very good reason for not posting in the past few weeks: I was sailing 300 miles south from the southern tip of New Zealand to the subantarctic Auckland Islands. Now that I’m back in range of internet, stay tuned for stories about this utterly surreal voyage...

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Mad dash to Dunedin

I'll be offline for the next two weeks! I just dashed down to Dunedin to catch a boat to the subantarctic islands, where I will help with yellow-eyed penguin surveys.

On the car ferry to the South Island! Last-minute roadtrip to Dunedin, where I’ll catch a boat down to some subantarctic islands.

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I'm in New Zealand for a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship.