| BIRD ISLAND |
This internationally famous bird island of Lambert's Bay may be reached by means of walking on a breakwater wall that was erected in 1959, by Ferdinand Käsner.
It is the most accessible Cape Gannet Colony in the world. Experience a face-to-face encounter with a Cape gannet on a rocky island off the West Coast. Visitors will enjoy exploring the island as well as its superbly situated gannet look-out and visitors’ centre, where one can read about an island steeped in history and humour. The boisterous and stormy times of egg and guano collection, and the guano “ war” of 1844, are some of the stories told.
Bird Island nature reserve provides shelter and protection for thousands of sea-birds, particularly Cape gannets, various species of cormorants, and penguins. You can come within a mere wingspan of more that 25 000 blue-eyed Cape gannets.
Photos by Courtesy of David Gill
It is the most accessible Cape Gannet Colony in the world. Experience a face-to-face encounter with a Cape gannet on a rocky island off the West Coast. Visitors will enjoy exploring the island as well as its superbly situated gannet look-out and visitors’ centre, where one can read about an island steeped in history and humour. The boisterous and stormy times of egg and guano collection, and the guano “ war” of 1844, are some of the stories told.
Bird Island nature reserve provides shelter and protection for thousands of sea-birds, particularly Cape gannets, various species of cormorants, and penguins. You can come within a mere wingspan of more that 25 000 blue-eyed Cape gannets.
Photos by Courtesy of David Gill
