A search for Swift Terns today.

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This photo is a painting of The Birkenhead that sank here at our coast near where I have taken all of the photos below.
I was on a hunt to get some Terns to show you!

This post is also good for #wednesdaywalk hosted by @tattoodjay and for #featheredfriends hosted by @melinda010100

On the 26th day of February 1852, the famous Birkenhead troopship was wrecked and sank further along this same coastline at "Danger Point". The saying; "Women and children first" originated during the sinking after the ship was ripped into two parts, but I digress as I have done a cited post about the Birkenhead before.
I was determined to get some shots of the terns and you can judge if I was successful in the photos below!
Let's have a look!

This is the hunting walk and we are going right into the front edge where the rocks meet the ocean!

Ah! Here's our first sighting of the swift terns on a rock. They are called swift because of their speed in flight!

Bingo! Jackpot! There they were and there were so many of them!

They are sharp birds, so they saw my approach and they took off!

Now do you see the fisherman in the yellow circle? I will show you later what happens with him!

After the terns took off, they didn't fly very far and here they are all settling on another rock!

So now the terns thought that they were far away and safe, so that they could relax!

Remember the fisherman? Well here he came up behind the terns on his way to the beach!

At last some of the terns saw him and the alarm was raised. But notice how close he came to the terns and I will know next time to approach the terns from their rear!

With a "whooshing" sound the terns took off and I could even hear them above the sound of the ocean!

I was stuck on my rock and would have had to jump into the sea to get closer to them. But oh, what a sight!

And finally I leave you all with this dreamy photo!

Some times I visit the beach to sit on the white sand and other times the lagoons are also a favorite.
But on cool cloudy and stormy days there is nothing that beats a walk on the rocks. I don't mean a walk in the shallows on the rocks, but rather at the deep end as that is where the animals feel safe. I even have some shots somewhere of live octopuses in the rocks and it's another world of wonder out there.
Yes, the footing is slippery and in some parts a person has to take some detours, but eventually one can get to the point.
Another great thing is that there are no people at that end of the rocks and you can see in the yellow ringed photo how far away that fisherman was for me.
A big problem would be to misjudge the timing of the incoming high tide, as all of those rocks are swallowed by the sea and people have drowned here in the rip currents. But it is an excellent place for photography purposes!

Note: All of the photos are my own, unedited and only cropped for uploading purposes.
I have used my Canon Powershot SX60 HD to take the photos!

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