Friday 17th July
It was great to welcome back crew member Georgi today, who returned to Marine Discovery after having her baby boy in March. It was a fabulous – and very hot 🥵 – day with more fins than you could shake a stick at. On this morning’s Ocean Discovery we saw common dolphins from the start…
Thursday 16th July
We had two Ocean Discovery trips today on another hot day, though with a welcome sea breeze. This morning we found several groups of common dolphins who were engaging in a range of behaviours which were very interesting to observe. Some were feeding, some socialising, some were resting, and some came over to interact and…
Wednesday 15th July
The forecast was for much lighter easterly winds today so we set off on our 5 hour tour. We had fantastic sailing conditions and found a couple of feeding events with gannets and shearwaters offshore. We found a large pod of common dolphins feeding under the second with gannets raining in on fish and shearwaters…
Saturday 11th July
Normally an easterly wind is really unwelcome, but today was so roasting hot that breeze from any direction was very welcome. Being an easterly wind it did mess up the sea state a bit so spotting wildlife was a little tricky. This morning the breeze was a little lighter though and we were able to…
Friday 10th July
A day of two halves, with calm conditions on this morning’s 3 hour tour, but a building easterly wind made things rather choppy at times on the 4 hour tour this afternoon. This morning we found lots of cetaceans, including Risso’s dolphins, common dolphins and porpoises as well as grey seals in the water. There…
Thursday 9th July
Such calm silky water, chockablock with plankton, jellyfish and – this afternoon at least – dolphins. Our four hour trip this morning was actually quite quiet until we found a group of common dolphins, though conditions were beautifully calm and clear. We did see a few seals bottling round the island, including a big male….
Wednesday 8th July
We had a our first five hour Discovery Adventure today and it was awesome! Conditions could not have been better for wildlife spotting. We hadn’t been going twenty minutes when the sightings started and at one point we didn’t know where to look – Risso’s dolphins to starboard, porpoises to port and common dolphins straight…
Tuesday 7th July
It was a lovely day today with warm sunshine and very little wind. It was one of those days when the wildlife is not obvious and you have to really search, however there were creatures to be found out there if you looked hard enough. On the morning three hour trip, it was all very…
Monday 17th July
There was loads to see on this morning’s Discovery Voyage trip. There was a large pod of bottlenose dolphins first of all, numbering about forty animals. Again, theses are not what used to be described as “the inshore pod” which used to be seen regularly in Cornwall, who now seem to have disappeared as a…
Saturday 4th July
This morning’s Discovery Voyage was a bit of a slow burner but the wildlife appeared eventually! Straight south of here we picked up a very small pod of very avoidant dolphins who clearly weren’t interested so we left them alone to do their thing. We then motored sailed (the wind was light) a long way…
Friday 3rd July
It was a calm start to the day with a building westerly breeze that developed into lovely sailing conditions. We had a bit of a bonanza on this morning’s Discovery Voyage trip again, with Risso’s dolphins spotted first, included some mothers with small calves. There were also two encounters with porpoises, firstly with a pair…
Thursday 2nd July
The day started off murky but the wildlife this morning was fantastic. We had great views of harbour porpoises (between 30 and 40) feeding under diving gannets, followed by a terrific encounter with some common dolphins who were in a very showy offy mood. As we came back into the bay we found a group…