Monday, 21 September 2009

Tour at 13:00

Again we headed out to look for the whales, and now the wind had gone down quite a lot so the sea was much more calm. We headed towards the same area as we were this morning and again found several Minke whales out there. We got some really close sightings again as well which was really nice. Suddenly we were surrounded with white-beaked dolphins. They seemed to come from nowhere! There were 3 groups of dolphins quite close to us and they were really playful, coming up to the boat and swimming just alongside us and even under the boat too! We spotted some harbour porpoises both at the beginning and end of the trip as well :)

 

Tour at 9:00

We set off this morning with some pretty big waves although the weather was quite nice and calm. We came to an area where there were some feeding Gannets, but we weren't able to spot anything around there so we headed on further out. We came to an area where there were several Minke whales, one which right at the beginning was really close to the boat! We were able to observe 4-5 Minke whales on the trip and a group of harbour porpoises on the way back to the harbour.