Weekly Update January #3

No tours so far, mainly due to weather, however yesterday the sea conditions were very good but unfortunately no bookings to go out to the Sea… However the river had once again 2 visits of bottlenose dolphins!
This following week we expect poor weather conditions the whole week, with the fall of wind storm Garoe. With some we’ll have favourable forecast for Friday 24th morning. One of these days will be the only viable window until January 30th as storm Éowyn and others will affect severely the sea conditions.

Weekly Update January #2

Still no tours this year, despite some good weather days. This was due to complete lack of bookings this month… Is the cold frightening everyone? Well winter tours are technically warmer than summer tours.. yes yes it’s a bit colder now, but only some 5ºC lower at Sea. It’s technically warmer because guests finally bring jackets instead of t-shirts!
This following week we expect poor weather conditions for the whole week, except for Wednesday 15th morning which is looking quite good! And Saturday 18th afternoon, which is looking very good!!

Weekly Update January #1

No tours this year so far, result of lack of bookings during the week and in the weekend despite some bookings bad sea conditions from storm Floriane, forced us to cancel every tour.

This week the bad weather will continue as storm Garoe will hit on Tuesday 7th and it’s effects will last until Thrusday 9th.

So this should leave Friday 10th and the weekend free of high waves and the tours will resume.

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Weekly Update December #5

In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 23 months since the last failed ocean tour. We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphin.
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Great Skua and Great Cormorant.
All tours rated 3 stars on our scale
We had to travel an average of 68Km to find the dolphins, which took ~3h06 to cover it. On average we hosted 9 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases. Sea state was on average sea state 3.
Our CO2 emissions were 1.7 Kg per Km, a 5% improvement from last year.
This following week only Thursday 2nd has favourable sea conditions, with the next good weather opening coming somewhere around the 10th.

Weekly Update December #3

In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 23 months since the last failed ocean tour.
We sighted 2 dolphin species, the common dolphin and bottlenose dolphins
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Great Skua and European shag.
All tours rated 4 stars on our scale
We had to travel an average of 85Km to find the dolphins, which took ~3h13 to cover it. On average we hosted 6 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 4.
Our CO2 emissions were 1.4 Kg per Km, a 14% improvement from last year.
This following week we expect poor weather conditions the whole week. With a possible opening on Friday’s 20th morning. If weather itself wasn’t enough.. the very low booking rate will lower the chances of having tours this week..

Weekly Update November #3

In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 22 months since the last failed ocean tour.
We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphin
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater and European shag.
All tours rated 3 stars on our scale
We had to travel an average of 83Km to find the dolphins, which took ~2h58 to cover it. On average we hosted 6 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 1.
Our CO2 emissions were 1.6 Kg per Km.
This following week we expect near perfect conditions until the weekend, where Friday 22th afternoon is the best day. During the weekend and dragging for Monday 25th and maybe even Tuesday 26th the sea conditions will now allow tours.
But the biggest threat to our tour will be the lack of bookings. We have been going out with the minimum guest number and even cancelling few tours because there isn’t enough bookings, even making 10% discounts on the tickets!

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 #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!!.

Weekly Update August #4

In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 19 months since the last failed ocean tour.
We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphin
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Great Skua and European shag.
We had to travel an average of 58Km to find the dolphins, which took ~2h41 to cover it. On average we hosted 11 guests per dolphin watching tour and 2 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 2.
Our CO2 emissions were 2 Kg per Km, no improvement from last year, but we’re taking on more guests per tour.
This following week we expect good conditions in the mornings with Wednesday 28th and Thursday 29th looking a bit windy on the forecast. The weekend and onward is looking very good, it seems that the stable conditions of Autumn will arrive sooner this year!