Sightings Blog

It’s been a gorgeous day today with unbroken sunshine and light winds. Some among us even wore shorts! This morning we sailed southwards to where we saw some shearwaters and gannets feeding and found a very interactive and sociable pod of common dolphins who swam with us for miles as we sailed downwind, engines off….

Another breezy day today with great sailing, but the sun was out and it felt much warmer. We explored through the bay looking for the dolphins we saw yesterday though none showed up. We saw three beautiful seals on the island who were lying in the sun, including our favourite female Kelp. We then sailed…

It was cool and breezy today, but the wind was great for sailing and we had some lovely wildlife encounters. Just a short distance out from the harbour we found a pod of about thirty common dolphins, who gave everyone some excellent views as they swam around Shearwater II. We also saw some spectacular seabird…

We had a two hour Bay Discovery today in brighter breezy conditions, and we sailed the whole trip. On the island we saw an old favourite “Seaweed” the bull seal, who lay on the rocks like he had never been away. We also saw the same very small juvenile tucked up high above the waterline…

Marine Discovery Sightings 2021: it was a fantatsic year for sightings in Mount’s Bay! What a fantastic year 2021 was for wildlife sightings. I was going through the records just to get an idea and found that we saw: Bottlenose Dolphins: 128 Common Dolphins: 9427 Fin Whales: 1 possibly 2 Harbour Porpoises: 1810 Minke Whales:…

Watching basking sharks There seem to be a lot of basking sharks in the bay at the moment. We are finding them in lots of different places on our tours. The water is very clear at the moment so when they come close the views are spectacular. The last few years have been quieter for…

Wtaching offshore bottlenose dolphins We found this large offshore pod of bottlenose dolphins recently. They are genetically exactly the same as the inshore bottlenose dolphins we see. However the two rarely if ever seem to mix. The offshore type are usually in larger pod sizes. There were over 50 in this group.

Crew training – adventure sailing We headed out for a crew training sail today. It was great to be back out there harnessing the power of the wind.

Identifying the differnt rorqual whales can be surpringly tricky can be tricky The easterly wind are keeping us off the water so I thought I would make a video. The whales we see off the Cornish coast are most likely to be minke whales, fin whales and occasionally sei whales (the rarest of these three)….