Animals and the people who watch them

On Monday, we toured around the area with a couple of goals in mind: see puffins, and see whales. We succeeded, thanks to directions from other tourists and our B&B hosts to the specific places on the coast where they could best be viewed. The tiny town of Elliston has a puffin colony on a big rock just off shore. We could watch them easily through binoculars and a few came over to see us. A spit of land had good whale viewing from shore. The humpbacks and minkes are about feeding on capelin. It was really hard to get any kind of photo of them from the distance, but we saw many.