What is it?

"What is it?" "A galaxias." This is DoC ranger Jolie (an accomplished highland dancer) surveying the freshwater fish on New Zealand's subantarctic islands.

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Thrills, spills, and seabirds in the subantarctic

Ever wondered what it's like to be jumped by a 700-pound endangered marine mammal? Find out in the latest installment of Voyage of the Yellow-eyed Penguin. Also featured: shipwrecks, near-shipwrecks, and albatrosses in peril.

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Sketches of New Zealand white-capped mollymawks, nesting on Auckland Island in the subantarctic

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Intertidal sketches

Chiton, as viewed through three inches of water.

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And now, a brief barnacle interlude

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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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