Sightings Blog

As predicted the last couple of days, today had become rather trickier to find wildlife after the bonanza of the last couple of weeks. This morning we had a private charter for a family, who were very keen to find cetaceans and tuna. We did find common dolphins and tuna, but they were much trickier…

It’s still so busy it’s hard to believe we’re at the end of September. This morning’s Ocean Discovery was tuna-tastic, with enormous numbers of really large fish leaping and splashing sporadically all through the inner bay area. At one point a feeding frenzy set up right next to us as we sat motionless watching some…

We had a five hour Discovery Adventure this morning. There were bluefin tuna jumping everywhere, some really big ones. After watching the seals at the island we headed towards some bird activity and there was suddenly an enormous amount of white water under them, and this was all tuna rushing around at the surface. There…

It was a dark dim humid autumn day with amazing wildlife sightings. This is being an incredible September. This morning we found sleeping grey seals, some by-the-widn-sailors, leaping tuna, masses of common dolphins, a few harbour porpoises, and finally some Risso’s dolphins as they looped into the coast and back offshore – a cetacean hat-trick…

What a whaley brilliant trip we had this afternoon (sorry, couldn’t resist). Despite occasional thick mist we had some wonderful wildlife encounters. These started with a handful of common dolphins and some breaching tuna, followed a little further on by hundreds of dolphins. They emerged in the mist as it thinned – very atmospheric. Out…

September is flying past, but we are still almost as busy as the summer. Today we had an four hour followed by a three hour tour, and the water was thick with dolphins. We also saw plenty of big bluefin tuna in among the dolphins, moving fast and being followed by gulls and gannets. We…

We were treated to some astonishing sights on this morning’s Ocean Discovery (the afternoon was cancelled due to the building southwesterly wind). We sailed south out of the bay towards the area where we have found a bit of feeding activity the last few mornings. There were some diving gannets and some very tricky dolphins…

There was a fresh northwesterly wind today which made spotting conditions quite difficult even though there was stuff out there to see. On the morning Bay Discovery we sailed south – pretty quickly! – and found some circling and diving gannets near Lamorna, along with big tuna splashes. Common dolphins sporadically appeared and teased us,…

A busy day today with a four hour followed by a three hour tour. This morning we went back out to the area where we saw all the activity yesterday morning. Sailing south, we saw fin whale blows 😮. This is an area where hundreds of dolphins and tuna have been feeding, as well as…

We had a five hour Discovery Adventure trip today in sometimes blustery conditions, and it was definitely a wildlife filled, windy adventure. The northwesterly was due to build so the early start was useful and we were able top head out a long way to the south before everything got a bit too exciting. The…

We had a great day today despite the foggy conditions. This morning in particular was very dense, but the wildlife has been so abundant lately that we knew where to go looking, and things turned up where we thought they would be. Lots and lots of common dolphins of course, with some hunting bluefin tuna…

We were really lucky with the weather today which was forecast to be murky and misty all day; as it was, we even saw the odd bit of sunshine. On both the morning Ocean Discovery and the afternoon Bay Discovery trips there was so much cetacean activity to be seen – hundreds of common dolphins…