Seals and Seal Pups
The seal season is well underway now and at the last count there was 1,227 seal pups around the islands and that’s 102 more than this time last year. On Saturday there was a gap in the weather and he seas were calm enough to get out. With a few guests on board we headed … Read more
On Saturday morning I took a gang of divers out to the Farnes and diving with the seals was on top of the agenda. We dived a place called Big Harcar where Grace Darling did her famous rescue all those years ago. Its not a deep place to dive and the seals were everywhere. The … Read more
Boy oh boy the weather has been just amazing over the last few days and if it stayed like this all summer the country would do ok as there would be no need to go abroad. I have hardly had to touch the wheel on the boat this week as its been that clam the boat … Read more
On Wednesday morning I received a call from my friend Andrew Smith, asking if I was down the harbour and if I was, could I give him a hand for 15 minutes. No problem at all I said, so off I went to meet him. He was beside the gun powder hut which is just the south side of the harbour … Read more
We did a Grey Seal landing trip on Sunday 23rd to the Longstone Island and the weather was good until the wind picked up later on. We steamed out towards the Farnes and I had to go back to Knocks Reef to see if the Grey Phalarope was still there but sadly it was not. We … Read more
I had a few people asking about our Winter Wildlife Trips so I decided put a trip on for Saturday 22nd November and I was really pleased with the response and I was looking forward to it. With the weather changing its mind every two minutes I decided I would take a chance and go for it and I … Read more
Just a little blog of what I have been seeing over the last 4/5 weeks. The season has now come to the end and I have taken 1 of our boats out for its annual paint but I’m leaving 2 boats in the water for trips out and about over the winter. We have had a … Read more
On my sail around this morning we stopped at the Longstone to see the seals, when I noticed the first seal pup of the year lying on the rocks. Firstly I was gob smacked it was so quick and secondly where it was, as I’ve never seen a seal pup on that area before. It … Read more
