Shag Rocks
The South Atlantic can seem an empty place when you are sailing between it’s far-flung bits of terra firma. With nothing to attract our attention except feeding humpback whales, porpoising fur seals, bow-riding hourglass dolphins, and the regular fly-bys of several albatross species, we were lucky that the evening presented us with favorable conditions to view the remote Shag Rocks. These lonely stacks rear out of the deep like the spiny back of some mythical reptile, and they are home to thousands of nesting imperial cormorants (shags). The Rocks have a maximum height of 70 m (230 feet) and are just a small preview of the massive avian colonies that await us at our next objective: South Georgia.
The South Atlantic can seem an empty place when you are sailing between it’s far-flung bits of terra firma. With nothing to attract our attention except feeding humpback whales, porpoising fur seals, bow-riding hourglass dolphins, and the regular fly-bys of several albatross species, we were lucky that the evening presented us with favorable conditions to view the remote Shag Rocks. These lonely stacks rear out of the deep like the spiny back of some mythical reptile, and they are home to thousands of nesting imperial cormorants (shags). The Rocks have a maximum height of 70 m (230 feet) and are just a small preview of the massive avian colonies that await us at our next objective: South Georgia.
