Puffins

Photo of the week #40: Another late post! Last weekend, Geoff and I took a road trip. We were fortunate to spend the first night of our adventure in Elliston, which is both an awesome place to view Puffins and the root cellar capital of the world! As interesting as it is to see all the well-preserved root cellars, the Puffins are definitely the best part of any trip to Elliston. They're practically tame! When we arrived in Elliston Friday evening, the weather was drizzly and a bit chilly. There wasn't much to do at our B&B so we decided to go check out the Puffin Island for the next morning (when we intended to photograph the Puffins). Lucky for us, when we got to the Puffin site the Puffins were hanging out on the mainland - turns out that cold, drizzly weather is very helpful when photographing in the Puffins because when it's sunny and hot they like to hang out on the island in their burrows instead. We were able to stand approximately 6 feet away from them!

Unfortunately, I'm a little behind on processing the photos from the weekend, but I'll try to get a few more posted next week. For now, here's my favorite shot that I took of the Puffins:

And here's another:

I think both are definitely an improvement over the only Puffin shot that I was able to take on the Zodiac Tour that we took a few weeks ago!