From Trinity, we sailed to Bonavista, 45 miles away. We went past Puffin Island that has 45,000 breeding pairs of Puffins. There were lots of bird life, but they don’t like to get close to the boat and we could barely see the puffins through binoculars. We did see several whales though, 2 came very close and one circled us, checking out the boat.
We wanted to stay an extra day in Bonavista as there were high winds predicted. We went on a hike to the end of the cape as Jerry, the dockmaster, highly recommended it and he had beautiful pictures of Puffins.
We did get to see lots of puffins and gulls. With the high winds, it was especially fun to watch the puffins taking off, flying, and landing as they are awkward flyers and the high winds made it even harder for them. Again, most of what we saw was through the binoculars – this picture was taken using the binoculars.
But when we were leaving, there were three puffins that landed within 20 feet of us. We felt especially lucky to get that close to them.
