Cape Town Pelagic

Thanks to the serendipitous meeting of John Kinghorn on the flight to Johannesburg and were able to arrange a pelagic off the Cape of Good Hope.  As it turned out it was a clear, nearly cloudless day, mild temperature and a rather calm ocean. In all we made it out 20 + miles from land and found several trawlers to check out.  According to Kim and the boat captain birds were not as abundant as other times but there were ample for us.  In all we had 4 albatross species, two shearwaters, one storm-petrel, and three petrels.  At one point there were literally dozens of shearwaters and albatross flying around the boat.  In addition, we had one gull and a couple of common terns.  It was an amazing day at sea and the birds were very cooperative for photographs some of which I posted last night on Facebook.  I will post more later.