Seal Season 2015
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 out to the islands to [...]
North East Blogger Awards 2015
This year I was nominated for the North East Blogger Awards for Travel, which was held at Bonbar Newcastle on Tuesday 10th. As you all know, I'm from a little village so going to the "Toon" as they call it, was a little bit different to the pubs around Seahouses and they must have known I was coming as they [...]
Rare Albino Seal
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 guys got their kit on [...]
Sea, Sun and Serenity
Since the beginning of October we have not had it bad at all around the Farnes. Yes there has been a few days when the weather has been dreadful and the seas were rough, but over all not bad at all. Some day's have been a pleasure and we wished we had some of this during the summer, but it [...]
Goldrush
There has been lots of Yellow-browed Warblers on the county over the last few days which is fantastic to see, but for me it has been the Goldcrest which is sometimes over looked. On Sunday I was out with a gang of diver's and all they wanted was to dive with the seals. After the first dive the south side [...]
Supermoon Lunar Eclipse
Over the weekend I have been going down the harbour at 5 in the morning to move the boat due to the big tides. I have had divers out in the morning so by the time we get loaded and get out to sea I have to be away before the tide is to low. Yes I could have gone [...]
Seal Pup
On late Sunday afternoon we were on our last trip when Andy (my crewman) noticed a seal pup on the Brownman Island. I quickly turned the boat around to see if it was ok and good news folks it was. It looked in good shape and then it was looking for its mother for a feed. At this stage we [...]
Sad News
I bring you sad news about the two seals that were born on Friday 18th 2015. We looked everywhere today to see if we could find the new born seal pups but after half an hour we gave up. I made quick phone call the National Trust Rangers and found out that they had no luck either. Nature is such [...]
Been a cracking few days.
On Monday we were sitting outside the harbour when the fog came in and as we were waiting for our guests I got a call from my cousin saying that he nearly hit a Basking Shark as he did not see it until the last second due to the fog. After asking where he was I decided to go and [...]
Change of Plans
It feels like ages since I blogged so I thought I would pull my finger out and get one posted. Its all gone quite at the Farnes now and even all the Kittiwakes are leaving, but at this time of the year you get to see the Fulmars in all their glory as they use the boat like a spitfire airplane would [...]