Tuesday: We get weather

Today we were hit by a storm, we could track its progress along the coast by using the radio. Fortunately by the time it hit us it was almost blown out, but it was fun going down to the beach and watching the waves crashing on the shore. So far in our travels we have not really got into spotting seabirds and waders, apart from heron and egret. These islands, however, are stopping places for migrating birds, so we have seen a couple of species blown in by the gale. In particular we spotted Willets, in their winter plumage, Foster’s Terns and Ruddy Turnstone.