Monday 14th October

Today was living proof that you don’t need sunshine and calm blue seas to have an amazing trip. We took some students from Cornwall College Newquay out this afternoon, and there were grey skies, a bit of mizzle and some rolling southwesterly swell. However the sightings were fantastic. After watching a couple of seals bobbing around in the water we headed south and spotted countless numbers of Cory’s shearwaters flocking near the water a couple of miles away. This would have been an unthinkable sight a few years ago, as would what happened next – bluefin tuna smashing up out of the water on a feeding mission. They were quickly followed by large numbers of common dolphins, accompanied by some very small calves who were chasing the same fish. What a sight! On the way in we spotted more dolphins, some harbour porpoises, some great shearwaters and an Arctic skua.

It looks wet and windy the next couple of days, but Thursday is looking decent and we have a 3 hour trip at 10am.