The captain of our cruise boat brought us really close to a rock where we saw this bunch of Australasian gannets in the Bay of Islands, Northland, New Zealand. They were really noisy and smelly but it was awesome to have seen them. It is a large seabird of the booby and gannet family, Sulidae. Adults are mostly white, with black flight feathers at the wingtips and lining the trailing edge of the wing.
Let me start by introducing myself. I'm Frank from the Netherlands, currently sixty-eight years old and retired for over a decade already. This gives me plenty of time to spend on one of the most fascinating hobbies I have, photography. It combines really well with travelling, another.. Read more…