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Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor)Observer
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little blue fishing off the Aramoana Mole
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New Zealand Octopus (Macroctopus maorum)Observer
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octopus at the end of it's life....glad to see one, still responding to light and shade and voice(?) before becoming gull tucker...
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Hoodwinker Mola (Mola tecta)Observer
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Sunfish left by the tide on the harbour side of the Aramoana Spit.
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krill on Shelley beach Aramoana.... and the gulls that were feeding on them....
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New Zealand Sea Lion (Phocarctos hookeri)Observer
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Large(est) male sealion at rest above high tide mark 15 meters north of Aramoana pilot's Wharf.
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New Zealand Sea Lion (Phocarctos hookeri)Observer
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Two male sealions at rest above high tide mark south of the Pilots Wharf at Aramoana spit.....please note that once we had walked North of the wharf a new tourist operator backed his "cycle-water-taxi" within 10 meters of the sealions... didn't get a photo as he popped back out to the channel when he saw me walking back with my camera...I've reported this to DOC.
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New Zealand Sea Lion (Phocarctos hookeri)Observer
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Large male Sealion 25m from Aramoana Pilot's Wharf
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New Zealand Sea Lion (Phocarctos hookeri)Observer
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Sealion at rest at edge of tide 25 m from Aramoana Pilot's Wharf
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Long-nosed Fur Seal (Arctocephalus forsteri)Observer
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fur seals on the the Aramoana mole...
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New Zealand Sea Lion (Phocarctos hookeri)Observer
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Female seal lion at rest (big male in previous ob' in foreground)
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New Zealand Sea Lion (Phocarctos hookeri)Observer
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Large Male Sea Lion at rest on shelley beach
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Leopard Seal (Hydrurga leptonyx)Observer
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Wasn't sure what this was, swimming on the harbour side of the Aramoana Spit until....(see next photo)....we got to see the "grin" & the spots...I've never felt more sized up as a potential meal!...signs on the jetty side of the point that this fine specimen (note all canines intact) spent the night...
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New Zealand Sacred Kingfisher (Todiramphus sanctus ssp. vagans)Observer
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kingfisher on power line at aramoana spit...
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Variable Oystercatcher (Haematopus unicolor)Observer
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Variable oyster catcher in a receding tide...on shelley beach
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Double-banded Plover (Anarhynchus bicinctus)Observer
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banded dotterel at low tide in the Aramoana salt marsh...wish my lens had more zoom!...
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New Zealand Sea Lion (Phocarctos hookeri)Observer
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..tracks/nest of smaller, possibly, female sealion who had vacated her resting place when the larger male turned up...about 15meters harbour sideward of the male listed earlier...
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Long-nosed Fur Seal (Arctocephalus forsteri)Observer
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at least 7 fur seals on aramoana mole...one "nesting" with the turns.
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Variable Oystercatcher (Haematopus unicolor)Observer
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one group of five and a pair of black oyster catchers another 50 meters further up the Shelley beach, Aramoana...most I've ever seen in one "sitting"...
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White-fronted Tern (Sterna striata)Observer
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large flock of parent/fledgling turns at top of aramoana mole...parents still feeding long...fishing both sides of the mole...
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New Zealand Sea Lion (Phocarctos hookeri)Observer
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Male Sealion 25 meters on the harbour side of the aramoana jetty...enjoying a good sandy scratch....
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Genus DiplodontiasObserver
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Starfish in the tide at 100 meters seaward side of the Aramoana Jetty...apologies for the blur...trying not to get my camera wet!
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New Zealand Sea Lion (Phocarctos hookeri)Observer
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Today I had lunch with a sealion...I had the the croissant with camembert...she had the salmon...almost certain this was Pattie as once she had finished she headed back to the the area where Janet would have been stashed.
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New Zealand Sea Lion (Phocarctos hookeri)Observer
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Mid morning play...Janet bugging the hell out of Patty....
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New Zealand Sea Lion (Phocarctos hookeri)Observer
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Patty & Janet at rest on the beach at about 8.30ish in the morning
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New Zealand Sea Lion (Phocarctos hookeri)Observer
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Janet making a hasty retreat into the marram grass...one of several false charges and retreats she made whilst we were observing her mother...seemed to be having a marvellous time amusing herself whilst Pattie & friend slept.
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New Zealand Sea Lion (Phocarctos hookeri)Observer
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A pair of female sea lions bedded down for the night...Pattie and one other...too big for Nuki...
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New Zealand Sea Lion (Phocarctos hookeri)Observer
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large male Sea lion in front of second pilots house on Shelley beach side of Aramoana spit
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Long-nosed Fur Seal (Arctocephalus forsteri)Observer
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Fur seal pups frolicking in and out of the surf and up and down the rocks...at least four involved at any one time...
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Nurseryweb Spider (Dolomedes minor)Observer
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Nursery web spider nursery....at the Aramoana salt marsh.
