Wednesday 30th April

It was a great trip this afternoon in the warm spring sunshine. There was still a choppy sea running after the strong wind of yesterday, but it wasn’t too bad. Quite often with easterly wind you can see very little, but today we very quickly found a pair of Risso’s dolphins who cruised past the boat, surfacing regularly before disappearing. There were a couple of seals hauled out, and even close in to the shore there were loads of Manx shearwaters whirring  around. Further out we found some rather tricky common dolphins – there were lots of them though, and a group of juveniles did give us one close swim by. Coming back into the shore there were hundreds of kittiwakes, guillemots, gannets and herring gulls feeding along the tide front.