sailing trips

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…

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…

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…

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….

There were some very small dolphin calves spotted this morning, some with their foetal folds clearly visible. We also saw some harbour porpoises on this four hour trip, lots of diving gannets and a few seals hauled out on the island. It was a little cooler today with a decent northerly breeze blowing which made…

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…

We had a our first five hour Discovery Adventure today and it was awesome! Conditions could not have been better for wildlife spotting. We hadn’t been going twenty minutes when the sightings started and at one point we didn’t know where to look – Risso’s dolphins to starboard, porpoises to port and common dolphins straight…

This morning’s Discovery Voyage was a bit of a slow burner but the wildlife appeared eventually! Straight south of here we picked up a very small pod of very avoidant dolphins who clearly weren’t interested so we left them alone to do their thing. We then motored sailed (the wind was light) a long way…

The day started off murky but the wildlife this morning was fantastic. We had great views of harbour porpoises (between 30 and 40) feeding under diving gannets, followed by a terrific encounter with some common dolphins who were in a very showy offy mood. As we came back into the bay we found a group…

The heatwave had a break in west Cornwall today, with a dip in temperatures and a fresh westerly wind blowing. Coupled with the wind of yesterday, this created some big rolling swell, making it tricky to search for wildlife. On both trips we found some seals round the island, both in the water and hauled…