Risso's dolphins

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…

We had every weather today: wind, drizzle, fog and finally boiling sunshine to end the day 🥵. Given the conditions on this morning’s Discovery Voyage we did really well to find several groups of common dolphins (in the fog!) and a grey seal hauled out on the rocks. No tuna today, but we saw the…

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…

We had spectacular cetacean sightings today with Risso’s dolphins on all three trips, and lots of porpoises on the first and the second. This morning’s Ocean Discovery saw the porpoises first and as has become customary in the last week or so, numbers were very high and they gave us some really close swim bys….

A day of two halves, with calm conditions on this morning’s 3 hour tour, but a building easterly wind made things rather choppy at times on the 4 hour tour this afternoon. This morning we found lots of cetaceans, including Risso’s dolphins, common dolphins and porpoises as well as grey seals in the water. There…

Leatherback turtles, Risso’s, common dolphins, porpoises, and sunfish! This morning we had an Ocean Discovery trip in hot, sticky conditions and this afternoon we did a four hour Discovery Voyage with a bit more breeze. The water temperature is increasing quickly but the hot spell is due to slow down on Friday which is a…

It was a gorgeous day out on the water, and we had a three hour Ocean Discovery followed by a two hour Bay Discovery. We had great sightings on both. This morning we very quickly found some fins over to the east – Risso’s dolphins. It was one of those times when it looked like…

Didn’t I say yesterday that dull windy conditions are usually way better for wildlife spotting than a sunny warm day when the wind is blowing from the east? We had two Ocean Discovery tours today and that statement was completely vindicated by fab sightings on both. This morning we had a great encounter with another…

Despite the dreary windy conditions we had a fabulous trip today. It’s always worth heading out at this time of year even on an unpromising looking day. After hoisting the sails on leaving the harbour we sailed south and spied a bit of bird activity, including some of the familiar looking pecking by great black…

We saw four species of cetacean today! On the morning Discovery Voyage a harbour porpoise was spotted very quickly, which was great because we haven’t been seeing too many of these lately. Numbers will build as we head through the summer. In the far distance we spotted some common dolphins but then much closer we…