A northern gannet on Bonaventure Island in the Gulf of St Lawrence off the coast of Quebec, Canada's Gaspe Peninsula. Bonaventure Island offers remarkable insights into northern gannets, thanks to an enormous and easily accessible colony of these majestic seabirds. Photos: AP/Carolyn Kaster
On Quebec’s Bonaventure Island, the ghosts of human habitation from years past and the birds that breed there now in extraordinary numbers tell the same story: Of lives lived hard in a place of fairy-tale beauty.
You see this from the tender ages on the family gravestones of islanders who scratched out a living from the late 1700s to when Bonaventure went entirely to the birds a half century ago.
