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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Bottlenose dolphins

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

Seal snooze

This seal snoozed here on Goat Island all day long

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

Sniffing out seabirds

More photos from two days of seabird-sniffing with Rua the wonder dog...

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

Seabird dog in action

Here's Rua the wildlife detector dog, during our seabird search this weekend on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. Video by Rua's trainer, Jo Sim of DabChickNZ.

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