Sightings

Autumn days like this feel like a gift from the gods, especially in the aftermath of wind and swell like we had at the weekend. On this morning’s Bay Discovery trip, we had an awesome encounter with a massive fin whale – this was feeding with what looked like over a thousand gannets, plus countless…

We had a Bay Discovery and a Discovery Voyage today on what looks like the last nice day before some foul weather comes in. Both trips were very productive with lots of common dolphins seen on both, including some very young calves. They were swimming close to their mothers in a big maternal pod. Seabird…

It was another dolphiny day today. We found lots of common dolphins on both the morning and afternoon tours. We saw harbour porpoises on both trips as well and grey seals around the island. There were lots of kittiwakes and gannets feeding around the dolphins and this attracted skuas. Mostly arctic skuas today. We also…

After a busy week that has felt like a second summer, we had one Ocean Discovery this morning. We started by visiting the seals, who were bobbing around the island. Wanting to make the most of the flat calm seas, we headed south. Before long, we were picking up porpoises spread out around us. After…

They day started slowly before turning in to a 4 cetacean species day. In the morning we had lovely views of harour porpoises before heading out and finding some tricky common dolphins. There were lots of gannets and kittiwakes feeding offshore.On the way in we stopped to see some grey seals on the island. In…

We set off in the autumnal sunshine on this morning’s Ocean Discovery with a light south-easterly wind, which meant we had a perfect angle for sailing south west. We picked up multiple gannet groups diving and decided to go to the closest feeding event. There was was a small pod juvenile common dolphins feeding alongside…

Morning Ocean Discovery: We enjoyed some lovely views of harbour porpoises surfacing close to the boat, offering everyone a great look at these elusive animals. We spotted plenty of feeding seabirds and several grey seals hauled out and in the water around the island. Afternoon Discovery Voyage: Harbour porpoises made another appearance, and we were…

We had another lovely day today. Bright sunshine and calm seas allowed us to search offshore. In the morning we found lots of different groups of harbour porpoises and had some lovely interactions in the calm conditions. We also saw a variety of seabirds including many arctic skuas, who were harassing kittiwakes for their catch….

  We had the luxury of a glassy calm morning today. The calm conditions allowed us to spot multiple groups of common dolphins and harbour porpoises. We also saw a huge variety of seabirds including some more unusual sights: sooty shearwaters, great shearwaters, Balearic shearwaters and grey phallaropes. There were lots of grey seals on…

Dry and sunny today – a very welcome development. We had a three hour trip but sailed so far south west it turned into four hours! There was plenty of wildlife to be seen including large numbers of common dolphins and harbour porpoises (which were too quick to get photos of!) and sixteen seals hauled…