Early this morning the inhabitants of the Braveheart woke to the rocking and rolling of the ocean, and the ship was forced to move from Boat Cove on the south east coast of Raoul Island. A nearby weather system developed ► Read More…
Meyer Islands
The 1st of November marked a few changes for the contingent aboard the Braveheart. It was someone’s wedding anniversary, the start of Mo-vember (see the photo from yesterday), we caught news of a favourable half time score in the World ► Read More…
Sometimes things don’t always turn out as you’d expect. The weather has been better than we could have possibly hoped for. There have been fewer sharks and more whales than in previous years. We’ve found algae where we expected coral, ► Read More…
This morning the strong westerly winds that have been making work challenging for both the science and film teams finally turned to the south and began to drop. While sea conditions didn’t ease enough to allow sampling at the more ► Read More…
Photos from the Natural History New Zealand film crew.
Today we had an amazing dive at North Meyer Island – we encountered lush meadows of brown and red alga with the occasional dash of florescent orange. The volume and extent of algae we observed today has not previously been ► Read More…
We woke to the nearby calls of boobies and ternlets hovering above the Braveheart. We left Macauley Island the previous evening and dropped anchor just after 6am and we’re now sitting alongside the Meyer Islands, just off the north coast ► Read More…
When I was last here in 2008 we saw Kermadec Petrels flying about Rayner Point where there is an acoustic attraction system set up, but we found no sign of their breeding on Raoul Island. These acoustic systems (there are ► Read More…
