September 2009 to May 2010
We had another long and intersting season working in the NZ Sub Antarctic, starting with 20 day charter to the Snares working with the Salvins albatross and then a one month long survey of the Auckland islands looking for yellow Eyed Penguins, this was the fist time such a survey was carried out, the Auckland islands are the last bastion for these endangered species this was early in the year and it seemed particularly windy, lots days with wind speeds 50 knots+ which made it more challenging then it already was. We also did a trip whit some slightly eccentric bird watchers which was lots of fun and we finished the season with a round trip visiting all the 5 NZ Sub Antarctic islands under charter to the University of Otago collecting sea weed and other intertidal species for there climate research work.
