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April 26, 2016
We feel like we’ve been living an episode of National Geographic (minus the bare-breasted natives). The wildlife in the Able Tasman National Park has been wonderful.
First, after we anchored off the Tata Islands, we discovered the two small islands were covered with cormorant nests, or as they’re called here, shags. (OK, so the Tata Islands are not really in the Able Tasman, but rather Golden Bay, but that’s where we started this leg of the cruise.)
At our next anchorage in Mutton Cove, Legacy was floating not much more than a boat length away from a fur seal rookery. The pups were everywhere! I’ve never seen such an appropriate use for the words “cavorting” and “frolicking.”
Then, on a dinghy ride up the stream that feeds Fisherman’s Cove, we found four little fur seal pups that were very interested in playing with us. We paddled closer to the head of the little cove and they exuberantly swam out to meet us.
In addition to these stars of the show, there were stingrays and eagle rays near almost every shore and the bird songs were constant. Every area we cruise seems to have some overriding theme. Here, in the Abel Tasman, it was definitely the nature show. –Rich
