Monday 28th July

We had a proper mixture of weather today with sunshine, breeze and drizzle. The wildlife sightings were great though. On the morning Bay Discovery a big mass of gannet feeding showed us where there were scores of porpoises feeding in the bay. The fish shoals were very mobile and the porpoises were in an incredible hurry as they chased it round, working very hard. A few times  they swam really close to the boat, showing us all their little faces. On the afternoon Discovery Voyage we found a pod of three Risso’s dolphins early on, which was slightly unexpected as we haven’t seen them for a little while. Much further out we found the common dolphins who were feeding along with gannets, shearwaters and bluefin tuna. The tuna were difficult to get photos of – they are so fast.