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appointed Membership Manager Nikki Harkin. Life Member Colin Carran was travelling with his three sons. “It was a great Squadron group that mixed extremely well,” says Colin. “I am sure that had to do with our common interests and backgrounds.” Sheryl Lanigan: “One of the things the expedition crew remarked on was that they enjoyed having people with a boating background on board. People who knew what clothes to wear, how to put on lifejackets, negotiate getting on and off Zodiacs and so on. We were familiar with how to look after ourselves on boats.” Asked to name her highlight, Sheryl found the question difficult to
answer. “It was all amazing.” She described Campbell Island as being about the sealions, albatrosses and plants. The Auckland Islands were about the history of doomed human attempts at habitation over the years, while the Snares were all about the penguins. Nobody is allowed ashore at the Snares, so all the viewing was from the Zodiacs. The pristine environment looked untouched since the beginning of time. Peter Taylor described the whole expedition experience as very exciting. Perhaps an understatement given he had a closer encounter with nature than he might have liked when a sealion bull charged out of
