The summer weather may not have arrived in full force this season, but the marine wildlife certainly did. We’ve had a cracking year on our wildlife boat trips, with exciting encounters with all our regular visiting creatures above and below the waves. Passengers on our RIB boat trips, which depart from Rock in Cornwall, were [...]
A common sighting on our sea safaris and birds that I suspect most of you will have seen at some point, maybe whilst walking along the coastline or when visiting harbours and coastal villages - as a result we bring you our Cormorant and Shag blog!!!!! Cormorants and Shags (Phalacrocoracidae) belong to the Pelicaniformes and [...]
Over the last month we have seen more sightings than usual of Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) around the North Cornwall coast which is great for us to see with them being particularly timid when it comes to encountering boats. As a tribute to these little marine mammals we bring you this blog, which we hope [...]
Here at Cornish Sea Tours we are lucky enough to encounter on our boat trips pods of Common Dolphins – but not just any pods, maternity pods made up of mothers and their calves. Just recently we came across a maternity pod of 50 plus individuals plus many calves, many of which couldn’t have been [...]
The North Cornwall Coast is a haven for marine wildlife, and is extremely diverse ranging from marine mammals to the humble jellyfish. We get a few different species along our coastline, namely the Common Blue Jellyfish (Cyanea lamarckii), Lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata), and Moon Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita), plus many more. Our boat trips are [...]
Around the Cornish coast we have plenty of amazing seabirds, but there is one that stands out amongst the others – the Gannet (Morus bassunus). Gannets are our largest seabird and we see them on almost all our boat trips with Cornish Sea Tours, often when they are directing us to the location of the [...]
Inspired by our survey trips with The Cornwall Wildlife Trust and Sue Sayer of The Cornwall Seal Group, all knowing of everything Grey Seal related, comes our Grey Seal Blog!! We hope you like it! The Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus) is the larger of the two breeding seal species found around our coastline. They can [...]
So with all the amazing sightings recently and the awesome video footage we uploaded the other day – check it out here – I thought I would blog about the bottlenose dolphin and hopefully bring you some interesting facts along the way! Enjoy! Along the Cornish coastline we have such diverse marine life, including our [...]
So in our last blog we promised some awesome dolphin footage of our encounters last week of a large pod of feeding Bottlenose dolphins and a smaller, but still amazing, pod of Common dolphins. Its taken a bit of editing and about 6 hours of uploading but they are now live on our youtube site, [...]
So along comes this amazing weather and so do the dolphins!! We have been seeing dolphins on a lot of trips over the last few weeks, mainly Common dolphins, however our last two trips this week have been incredible for sightings. With the sun shining and the sea calm it has made spotting them much [...]
