NEW Zealand Pelagics

Kaikoura is definitely a great trip. I would add, though not strictly pelagic, is the boat tours around Stewart Island. We managed to get a few albatross, penguins (on shore and in the water), skua and sundry others while cruising around. The Doubtful Sound trip is in the same category, albeit expensive, as they cruise the Fiordland Crested colony and there we saw sundries like Giant Petrels, shearwaters spp. and various Charadriformes. The White Island cruise did not provide much on the various times I have done it beyond storm-petrels and a view of the gannetry, it is however a nice trip to a volcano. Boating/ferrying around the Hauraki Gulf can also throw up some interesting birds. Ciao