Sightings

We had a great four hour Discovery Voyage this morning. To start with there were a couple of seals hauled out – while this doesn’t sound like much, the site has been devoid of all seals for a couple of weeks and we have been missing them. I’m sure it’s because the prolonged anticyclone and…

Passengers had a fabulous experience on this afternoon’s Ocean Discovery trip, when we found large numbers of common dolphins feeding with countless shearwaters and lots of gannets and guillemots. All had seemed quiet for a while, though it was a beautiful sunny afternoon, with light winds. Distant views of gannets dropping down into the water…

Another beautiful day, with sunshine and light easterly wind. A small group of common dolphins approached us as we headed offshore, and there were two very small calves with them. The little ones jumped excitedly  but unpredictably so very hard to capture on camera! It was described by one of the ladies on board as”Magical”!…

A quieter trip today with no marine mammals spotted – at least no alive ones. We did find another dead seal and also what we figured used to be a bottlenose dolphin which had been dead a long time and been pushed down the Channel by the easterlies. The teeth looked massive. We saw a…

It was a wet windy start to the day so re arranged our morning Discovery Voyage trip and went ahead with the afternoon Ocean Discovery trip once it had stopped raining and calmed down. We had two different encounters with harbour porpoises, as well as a grey seal including plenty of  birds. These included great…

More puffins today on our Discovery Voyage trip! (Josh always gets the puffins ☹️ ).  We also had lovely views of a load of other seabirds including Manx shearwaters, guillemots, razorbills, and kittiwakes, and the seals were very curious today. A small pod of harbour porpoises in the late afternoon light were a lovely  end…

It was another day of two halves, with a wildlife filled morning and a pretty quiet afternoon. This morning we found two large groups of common dolphins which stayed with us for ages, bowriding the boat and giving everyone some lovely views. We also saw a couple of seals and lots of seabirds. There was…

What a gorgeous Discovery Voyage trip we had this morning. This is the four hour trip and when conditions are right, it allows us to get down into the Land’s End area. Not only does this give us spectacular views, but it also lets us explore areas which are beyond the shorter trips. There were…

It seems to be absolutely standard on May bank holiday to have a sunshine, blue skies….and a freezing northeasterly wind! Great for sailing though – it meant we could head westwards into the Land’s End area and have a bit of shelter down there as opposed to the more usual big swell. There were lots…

We had a lovely sail today and the light was amazing. It was quiet for marine mammals though there were loads of Manx shearwaters pouring past. The sailing regatta at Marazion continued! We have always said that we report on the quiet days as well as the days when there is loads going on –…