seals

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…

More puffins today on our Discovery Voyage trip! (Josh always gets the puffins ☹️ ).  We also had lovely views of a load of other seabirds including Manx shearwaters, guillemots, razorbills, and kittiwakes, and the seals were very curious today. A small pod of harbour porpoises in the late afternoon light were a lovely  end…

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…

We had a four hour trip this afternoon – boy it was cold! No fins today, but plenty of Manx shearwaters and fulmars and lots of exciting sailing on that northerly wind. There was a seal hauled out on the island and mating season is clearly underway for the gulls – they have very little…

It was a beautiful Easter Sunday though rather quiet for wildlife. We ran two Ocean Discovery, with 12 people on each – thanks for joining us today. This morning as well as the seabirds and a grey seal hauled out, we saw the biggest comb jellies we have ever seen though they were too deep…

We had another lovely day on the water today. This morning there was hardly a breath of wind, and apart from the temperature, it felt like a July day out there, with common dolphins and masses of seabirds feeding almost from the start of the trip. They were very intent on their feeding and it…

After a miserable couple of days of weather, what a great day we had today. It’s often the way that after a strong westerly blow and rain, we get fab sightings and so it was on both the morning and the afternoon Ocean Discovery trips. This morning we saw 3 different pods of common dolphins…

Today we had our first Discover Marine Science day. After the sunshine of last week, in the strong westerly wind it felt freezing! We initially had some introductions to species ID, photo ID and the marine geography of Mount’s Bay in the office, before heading out. There were plenty of grey seals around the island…

The fine sunny conditions continued today after a dull start, and we had a three hour followed by a two hour trip. This morning we had a very exciting sail in the strong breeze, after watching some very entertaining seals round the island. Seabirds skimmed past, though they were too fast for photos. This afternoon…