Here's what was seen outside the harbour on the pelagic from Kiama on the MV Kato on Saturday 26 May 2018. The list uses the IOC Checklist v8.1 (Jan. 2018) for taxonomy, nomenclature & order of species. It gives fairly conservative numbers, which are estimates for the commoner species. There's also a map from Google Earth showing our route.
Grey-headed Albatross (juvenile)
Leaving Kiama Harbour at 07.32 hrs AEST, travelled out in an ESE direction towards the shelf edge, stopping briefly on the way to band an Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross. Having passed the shelf edge we made the first of two stops in deeper (300m+) pelagic waters at 34