TASMANIA BOAT TRIP  -  23/3/1998

Weather	Cool, occasional showers, overcast.
Conditions	Small swell, but fairly rough choppy seas.
On Board	Ken Baker, David Bates, John Barkla, Jim Beraldsen, Gabrielle de Zoete, Norman Eyre-Walker, Rae Gay, Chris Lester, Jann Mulholland, Ross Mulholland, Bill Wakefield.

				Most seen at once	Estimated Total

Little Penguin (dead)			  1			  1
Common Diving-Petrel			  1			  1
Southern Giant-Petrel			  1			  #
Cape Petrel				  1			  3
Great-winged Petrel			  2			  6
Gould’s Petrel				  1			  *
White-chinned Petrel			  3			10
Sooty Shearwater			  3			50
Short-tailed Shearwater		           250		         1000
Fluttering Shearwater			  1			  3
Hutton’s Shearwater			  1			  1
Wandering Albatross			  1			  3
Royal Albatross				  1			  5
Black-browed Albatross		  2			  6
Shy Albatross				60		           500
Yellow-nosed Albatross			  2			 10
Buller's Albatross			10			 70
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel			  1			  5
Grey-backed Storm-Petrel		  3			 10
Australasian Gannet			  8			 20
Black-faced Cormorant			 10			 30
Kelp Gull				 10			 20
Silver Gull				  1			  3
Crested Tern				  1			  4

#	3 other unidentified Giant-Petrels were seen.
*	3 other birds that were Gould’s Petrel-types were seen at a distance.

Cetaceans:	Common Dolphins (10)