Friday 18th July

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 fins….until a passengers spotted something which turned out to be a minke whale. It surfaced very unpredictably but often quite close to us and we heard the “whoosh” of the exhale. We then spotted a pod of very tricky dolphins, and finally had great views of a big ocean sunfish.