Easter Exploring

We have had a few good weeks of fairly settled weather over Easter this year.

Sightings have been fantastic on our shorter cruises, with daily sightings of Sea Eagles and Harbour Porpoise in the sound.

On our longer Whalewatches we have found an incredible amount of feeding taking place with Manx Shearwaters, Great Skua's, Fulmars, Puffins and so many more in abundance. It also appears that during our daily plankton samples that the wee beasties having been getting bigger and more concentrated as the days go by....all very exciting stuff!

But...no minke yet, a report has come in of a sighting by HWDT of a minke near Rum...unfortunatly a bit too far out of our patch....

So our next whalewatch is on Thursday this week, to say we are excited about getting out there would be an understatement, our first minke whale on the 18th April last year so we gotta get out there!

Bottlenose dolphins have also been in the area, south of here at Duart Castle last week (presumably not doing a tour of the castle itself?...) and our favourite cetacean the harbour porpoise has been keeping us all entertained. With one of the best assocations i have ever had with a small group continuosly circling the boat off Ardmore, with kids cheering as they went from one side to the other, pure magic :-)

James

Skipper