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Friday 18th September

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…

Tuesday 15th September

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…

Friday 11th September

On this morning’s Bay Discovery I remarked it was feeling quite whaley based on nothing more than just how I felt. Not particularly scientific I know, but it can be quite accurate 😁. Soon after that a big patch of floating weed made everyone sit up and get excited, but no joy. What we did…

Monday 7th September

Common dolphin Yesterday’s blog post is a little delayed because we are having problems with an sd card. Apologies to the passengers who joined us we are trying to extract the photos and will post them if we can. Today we had two Ocean Discoveries today and they were full of wildlife. This morning we…

Saturday 5th September

This morning we did the postponed Ocean Discovery after Wednesday’s cancellation. I think it’s fair to say it was a wise decision to go today rather than in the wind on Wednesday, because there was stacks of wildlife pretty much everywhere we went. It was one of those days when all the dolphins in the…

Thursday 27th August

There’s some ugly weather coming in over the next few days – well it is August Bank Holiday after all. For today though, all was well and we had an Ocean Discovery and two Bay Discovery trips. This morning there were lots of common dolphins to the south quite near Mousehole, and the sea state…

Friday 21st August

What a long day! Definitely a case of make hay while the sun shines, as conditions next week are currently looking dire! This morning we had a three hour trip and headed down west to find the tuna. Sure enough they were there leaping away, though hard to get photos of. There were some seals…

Tuesday 11th August

We had three fantastic trips today. The first one was a private charter organised by Dr Tom Horton of Exeter University, who used to be a Marine Discovery guide in another life! His recent research has investigated the stomach contents of landed tuna to see what they are eating – really important stuff if we…

Wednesday 5th August

It was a full on day today with a morning Ocean Discovery followed by two Bay Discovery trips. All three of them had great sightings. This morning there were plunging gannets as far as you could see, and masses of common dolphins with them. These stretched from right in the inner part of the bay…

Monday 3rd August

We ran one of our Discovery Adventure trips this morning, which is the new 5 hour trip for 2026. With tales of fin whales around Land’s End yesterday (our day off!), all eyes were peeled. We soon found our first common dolphins feeding with gannets, which then led us on a merry dance looking for…