Cormorants on the Rio de la Plata

Oil on board 30 x 100cm

Whilst staying over Christmas in Montevideo, Uruguay, I would walk along the river’s promenade. The Plata is so wide, that one cannot see the other side (Buenos Aires). I loved hanging out there, watching the waves break against the rocky shore. Swallows darted in the breeze, and there was always a line of black cormorants resting at water’s edge. The water is silty after its long, muddy voyage down from Paraguay & Brazil. Its waters are not polluted—people were swimming—though the chocolate colored water didn’t beckon to me.