Sightings Blog

Mist and murk cleared this morning to leave a brighter morning, though this afternoon was very dim and autumnal. This morning we had the best porpoise encounter we have had for some time – in fact a couple of regulars described it as our best ever. After so many amazing dolphins, it’s such a treat…

The weather is so fabulous this weekend we added a short notice trip to take advantage of it. There’s no wind at all and the water surface is like satin – absolutely fabulous. Autumn days like this are a gift from the wildlife and weather gods. Heading out of the harbour we could see the…

There has been some strong wind and brutal swell this well, so we have had four days off for the first time in months! The wind had completely dropped for today and the season is still going strong, so it was back out for an Ocean Discovery this morning and a Bay Discovery this afternoon….

It looks like that was the last day we’ll do in September today and it has actually been busier than some summer months we have had. Thank you to everyone who has joined us this month – we have certainly had some memorable trips, with wildlife galore. This morning we had a 3 hour tour…

We weren’t supposed to head out today, but the forecast for tomorrow looks so ropey we swapped as many people from Sunday to Saturday as possible, and ended up with two full Ocean Discovery trips. It was mirror calm to start and a short distance out of the harbour we had beautiful views of the…

As predicted the last couple of days, today had become rather trickier to find wildlife after the bonanza of the last couple of weeks. This morning we had a private charter for a family, who were very keen to find cetaceans and tuna. We did find common dolphins and tuna, but they were much trickier…

It’s still so busy it’s hard to believe we’re at the end of September. This morning’s Ocean Discovery was tuna-tastic, with enormous numbers of really large fish leaping and splashing sporadically all through the inner bay area. At one point a feeding frenzy set up right next to us as we sat motionless watching some…

We had a five hour Discovery Adventure this morning. There were bluefin tuna jumping everywhere, some really big ones. After watching the seals at the island we headed towards some bird activity and there was suddenly an enormous amount of white water under them, and this was all tuna rushing around at the surface. There…

It was a dark dim humid autumn day with amazing wildlife sightings. This is being an incredible September. This morning we found sleeping grey seals, some by-the-widn-sailors, leaping tuna, masses of common dolphins, a few harbour porpoises, and finally some Risso’s dolphins as they looped into the coast and back offshore – a cetacean hat-trick…

What a whaley brilliant trip we had this afternoon (sorry, couldn’t resist). Despite occasional thick mist we had some wonderful wildlife encounters. These started with a handful of common dolphins and some breaching tuna, followed a little further on by hundreds of dolphins. They emerged in the mist as it thinned – very atmospheric. Out…

September is flying past, but we are still almost as busy as the summer. Today we had an four hour followed by a three hour tour, and the water was thick with dolphins. We also saw plenty of big bluefin tuna in among the dolphins, moving fast and being followed by gulls and gannets. We…

We were treated to some astonishing sights on this morning’s Ocean Discovery (the afternoon was cancelled due to the building southwesterly wind). We sailed south out of the bay towards the area where we have found a bit of feeding activity the last few mornings. There were some diving gannets and some very tricky dolphins…