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Feeding time
At Bass Rock you can take a boat trip with a local fisherman to feed the gannets. With the backdop of Bass Rock in the early morning sun, it makes for a beautiful spectacle. A gaggle of gannets thow themselves into the water at great speed to retrieve the fish. You can hear the smack of the water as they hit it.
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