Port Howard - lost count of the dolphins swimming around, families including babies all playing and going from lazy porpoising to sprint in no time at all.

They are Commerson's Dolphins - tap on the metal pipes of the jetty and they come and say "Hello".

Sealions! These are at Sealion Island - not easy to see with the naked eye, never mind photograph.
One of these upset a visitor the day before, catching and eating a penguin along the coast - and another one got eaten by an Orca the same day.

Sea Lion Island has lots of wildlife - here are some elephant seals which have the greatest disparity between male and female of any animal - mature males are up to four times the size of the female. And at 9 metres, a bit of a surprise if you bump into one as you round the Tusac grass clump.

Elephant because of the big nose, as well as the size.

More elephant seals - in February, when we saw these, they are moulting and just lie about looking sorry for themselves.
When you do see them go into the water, they are transformed - no doubt about their preferred medium.
About twice the size of a human - and these aren't the big, bad boys.

This one is lying on its side - quite offputting if you don't realise it.

This elephant seal is angry because a Tussacbird has been pecking at a sore spot on his back.
The tiny bird is finding something tasty - may be better not to peculate as to what - and the elephant seal can't get to the bird which is doing the equivalent of itching between his shoulder blades.
When he turns and roars, the bird skips away for a couple of minutes - but he will be back...