Hello all, I’ve booked a boat for two 3 day seamount pelagic trips in mid and late January from Brisbane. We’re departing Scarborough Marina early on day one and travelling to either the Brisbane or Queensland Seamounts, which are approx 200km directly offshore. The entire second day will be spent on the seamount and the third day we’ll cruise back into Brisbane. We’ll start chumming on the way out to the shelf and continue chumming until we’re 200km offshore. The trip has been planned to visit these northern seamounts when the sea temperature will be at its hottest, which should be around 27-28deg. On the Southport Pelagic trip in Jan 2013, both Polynesian Storm Petrel and New Zealand Storm Petrel were seen and photographed. Also seen was the mystery, still unidentified ‘New Caledonian SP’, which many believe could be the long lost ‘Lined Storm Petrel’. Apart from the usual tropical seabird species, we’ll also be on the look out for several tropical Pacific Ocean tubenoses yet to seen on Australian Pelagic trips. These include: Phoenix Petrel, Christmas Shearwater and Vanuatu Petrel. There is also a chance of seeing Collared Petrel, which has been recorded once off NSW and several times north off Norfolk Island. The boat is a 46′ Grand Banks, which is a long range ocean cruiser. If you have been to the Torres Strait with me by boat in the past, you will know Bob the skipper. The Grand Banks is his other boat. The dates are 18,19, 20 January 2014 and 31 Jan, 1 Feb, 2 Feb 2014. The cost for three days is $1200pp. Most places are already taken but I still have a couple of spots on each trip. I will probably be able to pick people up from Brisbane airport the night before and although I haven’t asked the skipper yet, I’m hoping those from interstate can sleep on the boat the night before to save accommodation expenses. If you would like a spot please let me know. Cheers Richard Baxter _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
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