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Beginning with a landing at Erebus Cove, Port Ross, we enjoyed exploring the historic cemetery then walking through beautiful Rata forest to view the Victoria Tree. This very old Southern Rata trunk has remnants of an inscription made during the search for castaways.
The Spirit of Enderby then relocated to Ranui Cove. Here many of us visited the WWII lookout with its views and inspected the main building of the Ranui 1 Coastwatchers for the Cape Expedition 1942-45. As we left, Bellbirds treated us to a superb morning chorus.
In the afternoon, we had a landing and walk across Enderby Island and were rewarded with excellent viewings of Yellow-eyed Penguins/Hoiho, Southern Royal and Light-mantled Sooty Albatrosses
We landed by Zodiac at Sandy Bay to begin a long treck through mud and tussaks along the east coast to Derry Casle Reef. Along the way we detoured into the rata forest for a luch break, and had good opportunities to photograph endemic Auckland Island shags and yellow-eyed penguins along the northern cliffs. From the Reef, a walk over open land above the cliffs brought us th the boardwalk that cuts directly across the island back to Sandy Bay.
