Sightings

We did two Ocean Discovery trips today after moving Sunday’s people to Saturday due to the incoming strong wind. It was a great day with a sunny start and lots of harbour porpoises and some grey seals. Sailing conditions were better than they have been for some time with a steady northwesterly wind. This afternoon…

We had a four hour followed by a two hour trip today. In the fresh northerly breeze, spotting wildlife was quite tricky as it had all been blown a long way out to sea. Heading westwards this morning we had several encounters with harbour porpoises, then a single Risso’s dolphin swam right past the boat…

We had spectacular cetacean sightings today with Risso’s dolphins on all three trips, and lots of porpoises on the first and the second. This morning’s Ocean Discovery saw the porpoises first and as has become customary in the last week or so, numbers were very high and they gave us some really close swim bys….

It was a cooler windier day today than we have had for ages. It was a northerly breeze though so it wasn’t rough and there was no incoming swell, so everything was quite comfortable. This morning we once again had great views of harbour porpoises, numbering about fifty. They swam very close to the boat….

It was another morning filled with cetaceans today, with two groups of porpoises and a big pod of about thirty common dolphins spotted. This was a four hour Discovery Voyage so we had plenty of time to explore over a wide area. The good thing about Penzance is, as soon as you leave the harbour…

We had a wonderful Ocean Discovery trip in this morning’s sunshine (no trip this afternoon due to scheduled boat servicing). On leaving the harbour the first thing we spotted was a seal out in the bay, lying casually at the surface before doing a slow dive down. The in the distance a few fins appeared …

It was a very long day today with a 3 hour trip followed by two 2 hour trips. This morning as saw plenty of common dolphins in a few different groups. It started calm but a southesterly breeze got up, making things rather choppy and that was up and down all day. We also saw…

There were some very small dolphin calves spotted this morning, some with their foetal folds clearly visible. We also saw some harbour porpoises on this four hour trip, lots of diving gannets and a few seals hauled out on the island. It was a little cooler today with a decent northerly breeze blowing which made…

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…

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…