The Bass Rock, seen here, one and a half miles offshore, is home to 80 000 gannets, as well as puffins, guillemots and gulls. They can be observed at close quarters, through the remotely controlled cameras at the Scottish Seabird Centre in North Berwick.
4 comments:
Amazing. Wonderful picture. Is the rock white because of the guano?
Which rock is Bass Rock? The white one or the one up close? Beautiful picture.
It's the white one, Jackie. White with guano, as FC surmised.
Wowwwww...this reminds me of parts of the Oregon coast, especially Cannon Beach, where there are huge rocks like this offshore, reachable only if one has wings. :) Which is fortuitous, probably, because while the rocks get covered with guano, its better than the litter that humans would undoubtedly leave behind if they could reach the rocks themselves.
Bass Rock is amazing, Margaret! It seems to be sleeping out there...a slumbering giant whose back hunches up from the sea. It reminds me, in color and texture, of the gray whales that Adam and I saw surfacing off the shore of Newport, OR when we were there last fall.
What a lovely place to walk...to mine for beach treasure...to listen to the surf...I am so there! XX =^..^=
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