Penzance boat trips

We had a great four hour Discovery Voyage this morning. To start with there were a couple of seals hauled out – while this doesn’t sound like much, the site has been devoid of all seals for a couple of weeks and we have been missing them. I’m sure it’s because the prolonged anticyclone and…

It was a wet windy start to the day so re arranged our morning Discovery Voyage trip and went ahead with the afternoon Ocean Discovery trip once it had stopped raining and calmed down. We had two different encounters with harbour porpoises, as well as a grey seal including plenty of  birds. These included great…

It was another day of two halves, with a wildlife filled morning and a pretty quiet afternoon. This morning we found two large groups of common dolphins which stayed with us for ages, bowriding the boat and giving everyone some lovely views. We also saw a couple of seals and lots of seabirds. There was…

What a gorgeous Discovery Voyage trip we had this morning. This is the four hour trip and when conditions are right, it allows us to get down into the Land’s End area. Not only does this give us spectacular views, but it also lets us explore areas which are beyond the shorter trips. There were…

It’s all still going on out there. This afternoon there was so much life in the bay and we had a wonderful trip, with some very happy people aboard. There were multiple areas where bluefin tuna were busting up at the surface, accompanied by screaming seabirds taking advantage of the fleeing fish – gannets, herring…

We had a three hour trip with eleven passengers this morning in an increasing southerly wind. The wildlife was a bit awkward to photograph today as it was unpredictable and the waves were a bit choppy but we managed to spot harbour porpoises (who were hunting deep so only surfacing intermittently), bluefin tuna and some…

It was a dark, dingy morning but the rain held off for our Bay Discovery trip. There was a small juvenile seal tucked away on a rock on the island, and some big bluefin tuna jumping near Lamorna. Autumn is really the time to be seeing their antics from the shore – all along the…

It was warm and sunny today for this afternoon’s Discovery Voyage, though there was a brisk easterly breeze making it rather choppy in places! There was a lot of wildlife out there to see, with two groups of common dolphins (one of them joined us as we sailed for a bit of bowriding), and some…

We had two Ocean Discovery trips today and the weather was an enormous improvement on yesterday’s wind and rain. This morning we had an extraordinary porpoise encounter. There were lots of gannets further east in an area where we have been seeing lots of porpoises so we headed over for a look. Sure enough we…

Today was one of those days when the harbour porpoises completely outshone the dolphins. They were feeding energetically in large pods, and because at this time of year they are eating shoaling fish like the dolphins, this appears to give them more free time. And what do they do with this free time….they become much…