Summer Highs

Summer is well and truly under way and the wildlife has continued to impress. Highlights from the last few weeks have included more close encounters with ‘knobble’, a whale we have seen numerous times this year.
A recent trip up north impressed with Muck Ducks, tasty carrot cake and an inquisitive young whale that surfaced right next to Sula Beag.
Basking sharks are still delighting both the Whale Watch Explorer and the Wildlife Adventure with some days seeing between 10 and 15 sharks!
Often over looked, our smallest cetacean, the Harbour Porpoise, continue to put in an appearance on most trips. Large feeding groups of between 10 and 15 porpoises have been sighted recently and although usually quite shy of boats ‘our’ porpoises have approached close on a number of occasions.
The last two weeks have also brought our second and third sightings of Sunfish, the third being a reasonably large and unusually mottled individual.
Not to be out done the bird life around our shores has continued to please with excellent views of both white-tailed and golden eagle, fantastic aerial pursuits between Skua’s and gulls, gannets plunging from great heights and guillemot chicks constantly calling to their fathers nearby!
Photo's to follow...