boat trips penzance

The weather is so fabulous this weekend we added a short notice trip to take advantage of it. There’s no wind at all and the water surface is like satin – absolutely fabulous. Autumn days like this are a gift from the wildlife and weather gods. Heading out of the harbour we could see the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

It was a squally August day today with everything the weather could throw at us. This morning on the Discovery Voyage we had great sightings of several Risso’s dolphins, including mums with calves and also some males who were more boisterous. There were also lots of common dolphins, some grey seals and some tuna spotted….