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Umgodi

This is a truly awesome location for wildlife viewing, especially if you want to take exceptional photographs of some of the most iconic creatures on this continent.

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Life at the Neck

There was no Internet access, no cellphone signal and no landline in the old military portacabin that was to be my home for the next few days. There was a two-way radio but I had been advised that it would only be monitored in the evening.

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St. Kilda

In summer the human inhabitants are joined by one of the world’s largest gatherings of seabirds including puffins; guillemots; gannets; fulmar; razorbills and kittiwakes.

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Photographing Chaotic Seabirds

The photographic opportunities are quite simply endless. I set out to improve on last years images of puffins in flight; get some close-up portraits of nesting cliff-top birds with their young chicks and to capture the action around the puffin burrows.

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Invasion of Bass Rock

There were literally thousands of birds in the air, all circling the island in a clockwise direction. The scene, described by some as, ‘a wildlife wonder of the world,’ was simply jaw-dropping.

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