Ouch!!
My friends engine was making a funny noise the other day, so he decided to come back to the harbour and get the mechanic down to check it over. The news was not good, the engine was going to have to go to the scrapyard. OUCH, that's going to costs him £25,000. To make it worse it's in the middle [...]
The Queen
We saw a lovely cruise ship pass last week called Hebridean Princess from Glasgow. I heard romours that the Queen was onboard. Saying that I do live in a small village so you know how story's can go around. I don't know if it's true but if it is, you could tell they didn't know the islands as they did not come to [...]
Pelagic Trip
Well we had our first Pelagic Trip today and we could have not asked for a better day. We headed out at 10.30am with the sun shinning and a little S.W. Wind, we decided to go south along the coast as the wind was a little chilly and I thought if we have an hour of this then we will [...]
Causeway of consern needs new solution
This is an article from our local paper The Berwick Advetiser. View from the lifeboat of a helicopter rescue from Holy Island Causeway. Published on Monday 8 August 2011 09:30 YET another car stuck on Holy Island causeway at the weekend has prompted the county council to call a meeting of those increasingly concerned at the number of rescues having [...]
Harbour Porpoise
Its been a mixed week with the weather but it's been a great week for Harbour Porpoise. We have seen them everyday this week. The Harbour Porpoise is one of the smallest of marine mammals and is quite hard to spot with it being so small. The dorsal fin, tail fin and back are dark grey and because they don't breach [...]
Monster Tides
Its been a week of big tides and it does not half make life hard. Trying to get into the harbour was bad enough, but when your used to getting close to the rocks to see the birds, and all of a sudden the water has disappeared and you can't get any where near it, then it becomes a real [...]
Sunset Cruise 5/8/2011
Just some lovely pictures from our Sunset Cruise tonight. Thank you to everyone for joining me tonight.
Big Sea’s
Well you can tell the kids have broken up from school for the summer holidays, as we have got bad weather. At least we had sunshine. So here is some pictures of the waves crashing over the break water.
Leucistic House Sparrow
I had a couple of friends on board the boat not so long ago and they said that they seen a white sparrow on Holy Island. The first thing I said was "Did you get a picture". They said no, so I proceeded to take the Michael as they said it was at The Manor House beer garden. "I think [...]
Recent Highlights
The breeding season is at the end now, with many birds leaving the islands for their first winter. As our birds leave we are starting to get a few interesting birds to pass by. The first highlight was a Honey Buzzard which drifted pat the Inner Farne on the 18th May and only the 9th for the islands. A Red-breasted [...]