Freitag, 30. Oktober 2009

Commersons Dolphins

Here are some more pictures from the day with the Orcas. On our way home we met a group of Commersons......fun as allways when they appear.




some more pictures from the Orcas






Rockhopper penguins at penguin Island





The dates for the 2010 Darwin Tours are already on the web page. If you want to share with us some incredible experiences in Patagonia sign up for 2010. We will have 2 groups with max. 12 passengers per group.
www.patagoniaproject.net

Orca encounter on Patagonia trip

What a great luck during the second part of our Charles Darwin trip.

On 27th October we went out to observe Rockhopper Penguins at Isla Pinguino.
Our first stop was the island where Imperial Cormorans are nesting. Suddenly we saw some blows in the sea, just 200m away from our location. A group of Orcas were hunting just in front of Penguin island.
So we forgot the Cormorans and went back to the boat.
We found the orcas that were feeding on something. After they started to navigate around penguin island and we followed them for more than 1 hour.
A first ID made clear that these animals did not belong to the Punta Norte Pod that we know from our work with Orcas in March and April.
www.patagoniaproject.net

I forwarded the pictures to Dr. Ingrid Visser in New Zealand. She works with the Orcas in Patagonia since many yours. She also could not find any match to other Orcas that have been seen before.
Now we will try to find a match from other places along the Patagonian coast. Juan Capello from PNOR is following up this case.

Ingrid is doing a work shop with us a Pico Island about whales and dolphins from 17th to 31st July 2010. We hope to have more information until that time an will update you in the summer.
Infos on the work shop can be requested by e mail
whales@gmx.net

Now enjoy some Orca pictures with us















On the second day we went to bird island, where the oystercatchers started to nest......Falk, our tour guide for the Orca trip next march took some close ups.






a sea lion bull



The paloma antartica with a sea lion. They feed on parasites of sea lions.



Grey cormorans nest along Deseado river

Mittwoch, 28. Oktober 2009

Patagonia Tour since 18 years

Once again we are on the road in southern Patagonia. The animals are great as allways.
This year we are very international in the group with passengers from UK, Italy, France, Austria and Germany. But nationalilty does not matter in nature and we all enjoy this wonderfull days together.

Today I will upload some pictures from Puerto piramides, the Right whales and some horses that we met on our way ....


























The next tour in Patagonia will be in march 2010 with the Orcas. This tours are for wildlife photographers. Find information on www.patagoniaproject.net or send me an e mail to whales@gmx.net.

Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2009

Kenya news



On my way from Pico to Patagonia I stayed for some days at Rhino Watch. On our Kenya blog you can read about the latest news at Rhino Watch.

http://whales-kenya-safaris.blogspot.com/2009/10/rhino-watch-camp-and-lodge-is-growing.html

soon i will publish pictures from our Patagonia Charles Darwin Tour. Like every year in October we are with the right whales.....comming up soon.