Day 11 Danio
As the seas drop a little bit the salvage guys prepare themselves to tow the Danio of the rocks. They were hoping for Today but I think by the time they have everything in place it will be more like tomorrow. They have had so much bother with trying to get stuff out to the Danio and they are only [...]
Not Nice
I was really looking forward to seeing my first Puffin of the year but I did not expect to see it like this. This is a little worrying as I only walked half way along the beach at Beadnell and I saw 21 Puffins, 3 Guillemots, 1 Razorbill, 1 Shag and 1 Gannet all dead. We complain about the weather [...]
Day 6 Danio (Big Seas)
It has been very quite on the updates about the Danio as the weather has just been so dreadful and the guys have not been able to get out to see her. A tug turned up which has just been built in 2012 and is called Sanmar Terninal VII. She can pull 80 tons and has a deadweight 120 tons, [...]
Danio Day 3
Today was wild and it got worse as the day went on. The salvage guys have got everything in place and they are ready to go the second the weather gives them a chance to get out the her. The winds have come at the wrong time but at the moment it's from the east and the Danio has a [...]
Danio Day 2
Today was calm to start with and then the weather changed when the tide changed. Big seas but blue skies but the gloom was hanging over the cargo ship which is 80 meters long and carrying logs is still high and dry on the rocks just the north side of the Blue Caps. Another boat has arrived tonight and they [...]
Long-tail Ducks and Big Seas
This is just a quick blog to say we had a nice Long-tailed Ducks in the harbour over last weekend when the weather was rough and they were back again today. I also got some nice pictures of the seas, and Goldeneye's sheltering in the harbour. Even my 14 month Archie was feeding the Eider Ducks at the beach in [...]
Ship Wrecked ( Danio )
On Saturday morning I came down the harbour to move my boat when I heard about an 80 meter ship on the rocks at The Farne Islands. To be honest I thought it was all rumors so I went out to have a look. Sure enough their she was high and dry just the north side of Big Harcar. I [...]
Guillemots have landed
I was out on Thursday and I was amazed by the amount of Guillemots that had arrived. We saw loads on Wednesday flying in from the North Sea, but I did not except as many as I saw on Thursday. I had felt my camera at home so I decided to give it a go at filming them with my [...]
Velvet Day
It was a beautiful day yesterday and I was heading out to the Farnes in the afternoon. I was down the harbour early to put some paint on the boats before I went out, but the boat was frozen. I asked Peter to boil the kettle so we could melt the ice and dry the boat before we started painting. [...]
Winter Wildlife Trip
We have been trying to do this trip for some while now but it keeps getting cancelled due to bad weather, but on Saturday we decided to give it a go. With all our guests on board we set sail. We had not even left the harbour and we had a female Long-tailed Duck and a male and female Maganser's. [...]