Friday 4th July
We had two Ocean Discovery trips today and both were great fun with some really friendly guests. This morning we had some lovely encounters with common dolphins – we watched them feeding with Manx shearwaters in the morning calm. We also saw a grey seal hauled out. This morning almost on leaving the harbour we…
Thursday 3rd July
A long day today with a four hour trip followed by a three hour. Things started off glassy calm though with quite a deceptive leftover swell from yesterday. After watching six snoozing seals, we saw a porpoise first thing followed immediately by a quiet group of common dolphins…followed by further groups of much more animated…
Wednesday 2nd July
We had a Discovery Voyage followed by a Bay Discovery trip today. This morning we found a pod of at least 12 Risso’s dolphins down the coast. There were a couple of individuals in particular who we got good views of, and picked up some useful photos for photo ID purposes. We also had some…
Tuesday 1st July
July already! It was suitably summery in terms of the wildlife found today, if not the weather. This morning we saw more harbour porpoises than we have seen since last autumn. We start seeing much larger groups from July onwards as they come in to the bay to feed on the fattening fish, but I…
Monday 30th June
What a day we had today on the last day of June. We found a dismembered cuttlefish on leaving the harbour on this morning’s Bay Discovery so were immediately on the alert for Risso’s dolphins. But it was common dolphins we found first – a medium sized group of adults and juveniles who were keeping…
Saturday 28th June
Greetings from a misty Mazey Day in Penzance. The murk hung around all day today which was a pity, though I think it might have been pretty hot if the sun had broken through. There were plenty of dolphins around on this morning’s four hour Discovery Voyage. As has been the case the last few…
Friday 27th June
I was unsure all week about whether Friday trips would be possible based on the wind forecast. We were able to head out on an early Ocean Discovery this morning in the end and we’re glad we did, because there was an amazing feeding frenzy going on in the bay. Hungry dolphins raced around herding…
Thursday 26th June
Lots of dolphins on this morning’s trip, almost as soon as we left the harbour in fact. There was a group close inshore and then another group further out in the middle of the bay. We also saw grey seals hauled out on the island. We had a belter of a sail heading back to…
Wednesday 25th June
We had a such a great day today. This morning after watching the seals on the island we spotted some intense gannet feeding a little further out, where there were large numbers of common dolphins with them. They were rushing round chasing fish as the gannets dived in from above and the shearaters flitted around…
Tuesday 24th June
The weather forecast decided yesterday it would be misty and drizzly today. I hoped it was lying but it wasn’t. However it was one of those summer days when a southwesterly wind and poor visibility brings in a lot of seabirds close to the coast. Most of them were Manx shearwaters and gannets, and one…