Waters around Cape Town gather some of the best seabird densities worldwide. We connected with hundreds of albatrosses, thousands of petrels including several spectacled petrels and Antarctic prions.

Estaca de Bares is the ultimate seawatching location in the Western Palearctic, offering dozens of shearwaters, skuas and jaegers, two fulmars, a Wilson’s storm petrel and a cracking brown booby.