Sea Point seagulls

Sea Point seagulls

Spaniels of the skies

ByTelford Vice

IS anything alive in the world today as silly as a seagull? Yes: spaniels. But, here in Sea Point on Cape Town's Atlantic Seaboard, seagulls outnumber spaniels. Or anything else. So it's rare to see them in splendid isolation:

Sea Point seagulls — photograph by Telford Vice
Sea Point seagulls — photograph by Telford Vice

USUALLY they're squawking and strutting about the place in cacophonic chaos:

Sea Point seagulls — photograph by Telford Vice
Sea Point seagulls — photograph by Telford Vice

BUT sometimes they can be still:

Sea Point seagulls — photograph by Telford Vice
Sea Point seagulls — photograph by Telford Vice
Sea Point seagulls — photograph by Telford Vice

AND look something like regal:

Sea Point seagulls — photograph by Telford Vice

EVEN elegant:

Sea Point seagulls — photograph by Telford Vice

"Life must be represented not as it is, but as it ought to be; as it appears in dreams." - Anton Chekhov, from The Seagull

© 2026 Telford Vice. Words and photographs.