Ooops no boat

Our engine has made us cancel 2 tours in September, showing signs of malfunction and high consumption (that’s why we stopped updating improvements of our CO2 emissions). We took it to the mechanic’s and it needs specialized hands, lots of work to fix it and it is not sure if can be repaired this year!

Of course we will not let you wait that long, a replacement engine is coming this week and we that tours will resume on Wednesday 24th.

Meanwhile, tours will be conducted in slightly different conditions as the ones described, specially different boat and crew. For that we dropped the price as there will be no refunds if no dolphins.

Weekly Update September #3

In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 20 months since the last failed ocean tour.
We sighted 3 dolphin species, the common dolphin, bottlenose dolphins and striped dolphins
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater and European shag.
We had to travel an average of 61Km to find the dolphins, which took ~2h51 to cover it. On average we hosted 12 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 3.
Our CO2 emissions were 1.3 Kg per Km, a 15% improvement from last year.
This following week tours will be done on slightly different boats, as our boat will be on extensive maintenance. Hopefully she will be operational on the first week of October. Weather forecast for Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th looks very bad and no tours will be done on these days. The weekend is looking better.

 

Weekly Update September #2

In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 20 months since the last failed ocean tour.
We sighted 2 dolphin species, the common dolphin and bottlenose dolphins. We had 1 whale watching tour with Minke Whales. We also had harbour porpoises.
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater and European shag.
We had to travel an average of 51Km to find the dolphins, which took ~2h30 to cover it. On average we hosted 8 guests per dolphin watching tour and 1 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 2.
This following week we expect near perfect sea conditions except for Friday 20th. Worse than the weather is the lack of bookings, which might cause some reschedules to the meet minimum booking number to do a tour.

Weekly Update September #1

In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 20 months since the last failed ocean tour.
We sighted 3 dolphin species, the common dolphin, bottlenose dolphins and striped dolphins
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Great Skua, European shag and Great Shearwater.
We had to travel an average of 57Km to find the dolphins, which took ~2h35 to cover it. On average we hosted 11 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 1.
This following week we expect poor sea conditions from Tuesday 10rd to Thursday 12th we’ll very likely not operate on these days. Friday 13th and onward, we’ll be expecting near perfect sea conditions!

Weekly Update August #5

In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 19 months since the last failed ocean tour.
We sighted 3 dolphin species, the common dolphin, bottlenose dolphins and striped dolphins. We had 2 whale watching tours with Minke Whales, Fin Whales We also had harbour porpoises and Sun Fish
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Great Skua, Great Cormorant, Common murre and Great Shearwater.
We had to travel an average of 59Km to find the dolphins, which took ~2h55 to cover it. On average we hosted 11 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 1.
Our CO2 emissions were 1.9 Kg per Km.
This following week we expect poor sea conditions for Tuesday 3rd and Friday 6th we’ll very likely not operate on these days. After the weekend, very good sea conditions onward!!.