Sightings

It was a beautiful morning today for our Ocean Discovery trip, and we saw loads of wildlife – porposies, lots of common dolphins and grey seals. We also saw some tuna breaching and managed to get a photo – never a foregone conclusion with tuna! On the afternoon Discovery Voyage the sun disappered but the…

It was a mega busy day yesterday, with an Ocean Discovery followed by two Bay Discovery trips. Lots to see out there in the morning with common dolphins, porpoises, a minke whale and grey seals as well as lots of diving gannets (where have the sheawaters gone? Offshore meeting the incoming tuna? Time will tell)….

We had two Ocean Discovery trips today and both were cracking. As we head towards August, the harbour porpoises start feeding in the bay in enormous numbers, and this morning they were here a week or so early. Often the general public aren’t as impressed by the idea of seeing porpoises in the same way…

There were lots of dolphins around on both trips today, though it took  a long time to find them on the second trip. This morning on the four hour trip, there were also some porpoises spotted as well as lots of gannets and storm petrels, and some grey seals. This afternoon we had some more…

It grew increasingly windy today, as forecast, so the second trip was shortened from three hours to two. This morning’s Ocean Discovery started calm enough, and there were a couple of really big feeding events spotted involving common dolphins, gannets, shearwaters and a few little storm petrels too. There was some big swell leftover from…

We just had a morning trip today because of the building southerly wind, which came up behind us as we sailed back to shore. It was a great Ocean Discovery trip. First we watched several seals snoozing in the water round the island. Heading south and seeing some  gannets on the horizon we found them…

Today was a trickier to find wildlife but we had a really good variety. On the morning four hour, we had some great encounters with harbour porpoises, and some more elusive dolphins (had they swapped personalities?). On the afternoon trip we sailed well south, watching individual gannets plunging in from very high up, but no…

Another great variety of wildlife spotted today with grey seals, loads of common dolphins, several groups of harbour porpoises and some Risso’s dolphins on the morning four hour trip. Seabirds again included lots of storm petrels and diving gannets. This afternoon’s three hour trip was really chilled – we watched some common dolphins feeding with…

After a few days off due to strong wind we were back out on the water today. It was calmer though  it rained almost all day. However after a westerly blow like that, if you are prepared to put on your waterproofs and maybe get wet, there is often so much wildlife to be seen…

It was still hot today but here we had a refreshing easterly breeze – in fact by the afternoon we could have done with slightly less refreshing breeze, but it made for some great sailing conditions. This morning while it was still calmer we found plenty of common dolphins and some grey seals hauled out…