Heading out to Gull Island

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On top, the boat I took out to Gull Island, the largest of four islands that make up Witless Bay Ecological Preserve, from nearby Bay Bulls. Further down, some of the rocky coastline, including a couple of pillars of rock that the waves long ago carved away from the shore... one of them itself is a nesting place for hundreds of birds. The waves also gouged huge caves in these coasts which, buried in shadow, did not clearly come out in any photos I took. In the bottom photo, we're rounding the point of Bull's Bay; in the distance, Gull Island, the largest puffin colony in North America. More to come...

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