Monday 22nd May
Sunny breezy weather for our Discovery Voyage this morning. Again, we headed round to the Land’s End area where we were out of the wind in the turquoise sheltered water under the cliffs. We had some lovely views of seals popping up for a look at us. We saw a good variety seabirds again, including…
Sunday 21st May
Beautiful weather again today, and it felt properly warm out of the wind. On this morning’s Ocean Discovery we went a long way south and had good views of a harbour porpoise as it did a slow track past the boat. We also saw several large rafts of seabirds – kittiwakes, shearwaters and auks mainly….
Friday 19th May
It was a day of two halves today. This morning was sunny and glassy calm: we found lots of seabirds including puffins, a couple of grey seals and finally an interactive pod of common dolphins. They gave everyone beautiful views through the clear water. This afternoon the sun hid and the wind came up making…
Tuesday 16th May
Back on the water today after the strong wind yesterday – we had a three hour followed by a four hour trip. This morning we quickly found a very interactive pod of common dolphins who made a beeline straight for us and the swam alongside for a few miles. In the crystal clear water we…
Sunday 14th May
We had a Bay Discovery trip this morning in cooler cloudier conditions, but flat calm sea. There was a great array of birdlife to be spotted, including several puffins, gannets, guillemots, fulmars, kittiwakes and sandwich terns. We also saw a couple of grey seals round the island including a young one hauled out on the…
Saturday 13th May
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….
Friday 12th May
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…
Thursday 11th May
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…
Wednesday 10th May
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…
A map of our sightings in 2021
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
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…
Offshore bottlenose dolphins
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.