sea safaris

There was a chunky swell running this morning on our five hour trip which made for a couple of green faces, however the wildlife was worth it. Straightaway we watched some very interesting behaviour from some grey seals on the island – a group of three were hauled out who were joined by a couple…

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…

There were a beautiful couple of trips today in calm seas and warm sunshine. On the morning Bay Discovery there were hundreds – and I mean hundreds – of common dolphins feeding well inshore.  We saw three dolphins engaged in behaviour which was clearly “courtship” i.e. two males hounding a female. There were also large…

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…

We had some phenomenal sightings today. This morning’s three hour trip saw certainly the most common dolphins I have seen all year (though I haven’t been on a couple of the other very dolphiny trips). But what made it special was seeing them doing so many different things. The group we found first in the…

Back out on the water today after a day off in yesterday’s strong wind. We started early with a five hour Discovery Adventure, in more westerly wind than we have been used to, with greyer skies. A far more typical Cornish summer’s day in fact! However as predicted, this brought the seabirds back in, and…

We had a wonderful Ocean Discovery trip in this morning’s sunshine (no trip this afternoon due to scheduled boat servicing). On leaving the harbour the first thing we spotted was a seal out in the bay, lying casually at the surface before doing a slow dive down. The in the distance a few fins appeared …

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…

July already – blimey. Is it me or are the seasons racing by? We had a four hour followed by a two hour trip today. For long periods this morning it was rather quiet, even though we sailed several miles south. There were some nice gannet, shearwater and kittiwake sightings, but it was only when…