View from the top of Port Stephens bay overlooking the Rockhopper penguin rookery and the startling blue South Atlantic

One of the residents sitting on her egg

Linda and John take a break in the (unusually) warm sun before the walk back

Driftwood on the Atlantic shore with the Gentoo penguin rookery on the beach in the background

The rookery

Goose family make their way through the seaweed for the goslings first swim in the sea

Dolphin gull nest amongst the Gentoos

Gentoos coming back from a fishing expedition …

… to feed their young

Thanks Mum

… whilst an Oystercatcher puts on a threat/alarm/courting display (don’t know which)