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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pianoman" data-source="post: 3281619" data-attributes="member: 21345"><p>Can't top poledark,  but my most unnerving encounter was with a large colony of nesting Great Black-Backed Gulls on Ireland's Eye (small island).  Had been dive-bombed by these before,  but here they were particularly aggressive and very adept at knowing where you were looking and then approaching from the opposite direction.  There was nowhere to hide  and the next boat was 3 hours away.  After being smacked from behind every few seconds for those 3 hours  my nerves were in shreds</p></blockquote><p></p>