AK Wildlife Cruises Falmouth

10/02/2025

✨🌸 Spring is almost here and so are our dedicated wildlife cruises! ✨🐬

It’s almost time…there are only a couple of weeks left until the start of our 2025 season, and we couldn’t be more excited to welcome you onboard for another year of unforgettable experiences! 🎉🌊

From our beloved dolphins and seals 🐬🦭 to majestic whales and a diverse range of seabirds 🐋🐧 Our WiSe Master-endorsed trips offer the perfect opportunity to explore the beauty of Falmouth Bay from the comfort of our new and comfortable catamaran, R/V Spirit of Our Seas, in the safe hands of our passionate and knowledgeable crew of trained Marine Mammal Observers, Marine Medics, and marine biologists 🔬⛴️

Book your tickets today and join us from the 2nd March for a season filled with breathtaking beauty, incredible wildlife encounters, and memories that will last a lifetime 💙✨

Don’t forget that you can still use our early bird discount code, EARLYBIRD25, to claim 15% off your booking price! 🌟

And remember, if you are a student 📚, you can claim our student discount — just £30 per person for a four-hour trip!

We now also have extra availability for trips on the 2nd March, 3rd March, and 29th March 🐳

Book online at https://www.akwildlifecruises.co.uk today!

1. Harbour Porpoises (Alex Wright)
2. A Minke Whale surfaces (Alex Wright)
3. Risso’s Dolphins (Fenton Doggett)

04/02/2025

🐬 Excitement and an announcement 🌅

All of us here at AK Wildlife Cruises are getting more excited by the day to get out on the water again…and in less than a month! Whether it’s a classic four hour trip or spending the day searching for sightings on our seven hour pelagic adventures, we are all passionate naturalists and our greatest joy is experiencing the captivating marine wildlife that’s waiting for us just offshore! 🐬🦭🐋

We’re running trips again from the 1st March, and remember you can still use our code EARLYBIRD25 to claim 15% off your booking price.

Now comes the exciting part of this post. We are thrilled to announce our new 🌅 SUNSET CRUISES! 🌅

Who doesn’t love watching a sunset? Now imagine watching a sunset from our spacious, stable and comfortable catamaran R/V Spirit of our Seas — Spirit is truly the perfect platform from which to enjoy a stunning Cornish sunset, and we are all SO excited to share this wonderful new trip with you! Watch this space for more information!

Book online at www.akwildlifecruises.co.uk
If you have any questions or queries, call us on 07753 606838 or email at [email protected].

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03/02/2025

Dolphin Memories from 2024 🐬

As we get closer to opening again, let’s take a look back at some of our sightings from last year, specifically some unseen photos of delightful short-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus delphis).

Our highly specialised catamaran Spirit of our Seas means you can stand at the bow of the boat and watch dolphins so close you could almost touch them (but don’t!!!). They are exactly as playful as you would imagine. They move gracefully through the clear water, spinning around each other and breaking the surface before continuing their underwater dance. Often it feels as if they are showing off just because they know we were watching. It is magical encounters like that when you think to yourself ‘this never gets old’.

Naturally short beaked common dolphins, like all the wildlife we encounter on our trips, are wild and we cannot guarantee sightings. However, if you’d like to join us in searching for the wonderful wildlife the Fal Bay has to offer, book onto one of our cruises!

Photos by crew member Lauren.

Book online at www.akwildlifecruises.co.uk
If you have any questions or queries, call us on 07753 606838 or email at [email protected].

Remember, you can still use our code EARLYBIRD25 to claim 15% off your booking price!

03/02/2025

With DRONE FANATICS SA – I just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉

20/01/2025

With Cornwall, the lizard peninsula and more – I just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉

20/01/2025

With 360 Cornwall – I just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉

19/01/2025

With Korda Developments – I just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉

16/01/2025

With Jacob Rheams Photography – I just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉

28/12/2024

🤩 Exciting News 🤩

We are absolutely thrilled to have been named as the Best Seaside Boat Trip in the UK by The Times newspaper! This is an incredible accolade and we are so, so honoured to have been recognised in this way.
Our experienced and highly knowledgable crew of trained Marine Mammal Observers, marine biologists, and photographers — and our passionate naturalist and truly brilliant WiSe Master, Captain Keith.B.Leeves — who always goes out of his way , working incredibly hard to deliver the very best possible wildlife rich experience possible . For all of our guests aboard R/V Spirit of Our Seas, to marvel at , photograph and thoroughly enjoy . No matter what their age our abilities. Capt Keith and his wonderful crew, love to welcome all onboard . This fabulous award and accolade 🥳 is a true testament of his passion and dedication to marine conservation and his brilliant team for their incredible work. ✨🙌✨

We are so excited to get back out on the water in March, and welcome you all aboard once again, for the best wildlife cruise Cornwall has to offer!!

https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/seven-of-the-best-seaside-boat-trips-in-the-uk-mns5ptgtv

24/12/2024

✨ Last minute Christmas gifts ✨

If you are looking for a last minute present for your loved one, our gift vouchers are the perfect present 🎁 These can be purchased online and you will receive them instantly via email in time for Christmas! 🎄

More information below 👇

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas!

The holiday season is nearly here! 🎄🎅

Plan ahead and surprise your loved ones with a unique gift this Christmas! 🎁

Our Wildlife Cruise Vouchers are the perfect gift for big and small to enjoy!

Redeemable for up to a year after purchase, these vouchers give you an incredible opportunity to see the marine diversity that lives in and around Falmouth Bay. Whether it be Pelagic Birds, Seals, Dolphins or Whales! 🕊️🦭🐬🐋

Choose between a 3h, 4h or 7h wildlife experience or create a custom-made gift card with the amount of your choosing*!

*The gift card section allows you to choose a custom amount to add onto the gift card (e.g: £20, £40,etc...). When booking your trip with us, the gift card can be used at the checkout and it's balance deducted from the total to be paid 🎉

Follow the link below to purchase yours now!

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🕊️ We are offering an early bird discount on all bookings made before April 2025 (valid on our 3h, 4h, 7h trips and gift cards throughout 2025). Simply apply the promo code EARLYBIRD25 at checkout and you will receive 15% off your booking 🕊️

(akwildlifecruises.co.uk/book now/gift cards)

We are looking forward to welcoming you all onboard our catamaran Spirit of our Seas in the new year!

And as always, we thank you all very much for your continued support!

24/12/2024

Merry Christmas everyone.
Just sharing this post from MARINELIFE. Another one of the many conservation charities we are very proud to work closely.
Giving you a little insight into the long hours and work they so kindly do in all weather's. Gathering this vital and important information . To help raise awareness about how fragile and precious our incredible rich and diverse marine environment is .
Merry Christmas everyone 👋 🐬 👋

🌊 UK Marine Life Highlights – November 2024 🌊

Here’s a look at some of the most noteworthy events from November 2024

🐦 Seabird Conservation Efforts: Conservationists have highlighted the importance of protecting kittiwakes and razorbills, which have faced habitat loss and declining food supplies. New measures are being introduced to safeguard their breeding sites along the UK coastline.

🌱 Seagrass Restoration Projects: Environmental groups have kicked off new seagrass restoration projects off the coast of Wales and Cornwall. Seagrass meadows are essential for carbon storage, coastal protection, and providing habitat for various marine species.

🌊 Plastic Pollution Awareness: November saw renewed efforts to combat plastic pollution in the oceans, with increased beach clean-up initiatives and advocacy for stricter regulations on single-use plastics. The Surfers Against Sewage campaign called for more action to protect marine life from plastic waste.

November 2024 was a month of progress and optimism for the UK’s marine environment, with significant efforts in conservation and research. Let’s keep pushing for a healthier, more sustainable ocean! 🌊💙

23/12/2024

Goood morning and a very warm hearted festive helloooo me hearties 💖 .
Myself and my fabulous team of passionate Volunteers and naturalist, from the combined Universities of Exeter and Falmouth .
Would like to extend to you all .
Our very best wishes and immense gratitude 🙏 for all your fabulous support.
As without you all , we wouldn't be able to do, half of what we so proudly do today.
Raising Awareness about Marine Conservation, collecting hard and vitally informative data 🌟.
By heading offshore on our daily, exciting and fun filled dedicated wildlife adventure cruises.
We are then able to constantly monitor and continually gather data including Photo ID and video.
All of which we then openly and freely share with the various Conservation groups , Wildlife Trusts, Universities and the MMO.
All this data also goes into the National Data Base. For others to freely access and use.💫
This allows for a much better understanding of our area , the rich and sheltered waters of Falmouth Bay and with that .
Allows for a much better understanding of what Conservation measures or Marine management is potentially needed to be implemented.
To help improve and conserve the incredibly diversity of wildlife that uttilises and enriches this fabulous and beautiful area . We are so lucky to call home. 🙏

With that, I'm delighted to promote and share this fabulous insight and video by Ben Gibson .. On the Sea Watch Foundations, annual Ocra Watch . Giving you a much better insight into what takes place and also the efforts required to gather this vital and important data, in the first place ..
Invariably, by the likes of people like your dear selves 🙏 reading and please sharing this post .

Of note :-
Is, the fabulous Sea Watch Foundation of whom we have been long standing supporters and proudly, one of their recommended safe wildlife cruise
operators .
That, they also run, the annual National Whale and Dolphin Watch Week.
Usually at the end of July and into August..

This is a wonderful time of year, and always a very exciting event for you all to join in on.

Whether your on a headland watching from the land or joining the many other, recommended Safe Wildlife cruise operators like ourselves 🌟
Details of the National Whale and Dolphin Watch Week are available through the Sea Watch Foundation website .

So please, looking ahead into the New Year .
Please feel free to contact us and book yourselves in and join us, on this fun filled and very Cetacean rich event ..
As its a fabulous time of year in the bay .
With multiple sightings of whales and dolphins throughout this week long event .

Enjoy the video .

Wishing you all a super, fun filled festive Merry Christmas and an exciting wildlife rich New Year.

Thank you so much everyone, 💓 for your fabulous support, kind words, shares and Likes👍 .

My heart filled appreciation and gratitude goes out to you all.

Looking forward to seeing you all in 2025 and welcoming you all onboard Spirit of Our Seas..
So it's a
Ho. HO, HO and a Merry Christmas🎄🎅 🎄 everyone with love from me 😃
Warmly yours .
Capt Keith B.Leeves x 💖 🐬

21/12/2024

🐋 Northern minke whale 🐋
The northern minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) is the most oft-sighted whale on our dedicated wildlife cruises; often — but not always — in tandem with Manx shearwaters (Puffinus puffinus). The old adage “Manxie means minke!” only goes so far!
Minkes may be the second-smallest baleen whale, but at 35 feet long they still aren’t exactly petite; unlike most baleen whales, minkes don’t “blow” — there is no visible spout of water when they surface, like there is with a humpback or fin whale.
We encounter them offshore all year round, but they are most prevalent during the summer months; in August 2024, we were fortunate enough to encounter minke whales, fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) and long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) all in ONE trip!
Falmouth Bay is home to some of the UK’s most cetacean-rich waters, and we pride ourselves on offering the best wildlife cruises in Falmouth, and in Cornwall. If you’re still searching for the perfect Christmas present for your friend or loved one, why not surprise them with a gift voucher for a wildlife cruise aboard Spirit of Our Seas in 2025? Head over to our website for more information! We can’t wait to welcome you and your loved ones aboard soon 🐋🐬🦭

1. A minke whale surfaces, Em Forster
2. A minke whale feeds next to an enormous Atlantic bluefin tuna boil, Cam Molland
3. A classic minke back arch, Em Forster
4. Two minke whales feed next to each other other! Em Forster

AK Wildlife Cruises — the guardians of the coast.

19/12/2024

The bravery of the crew of the RNLB Solomon Browne on the fateful night of the 19th December 1981 will live on forever. The courage shown by those fine Cornishmen inspires every single seafarer; tasked by Falmouth Coastguard at 1810hrs to rescue the M/V Union Star, a coaster that was floundering mere hundreds of yards from Lamorna Cove in 50ft waves with drowned engines — and by midnight, the whole crew had perished.

Battling Hurricane 12 winds, the RNLB Solomon Browne, under the steady hand of veteran Coxswain Trevelyan Richards, was able to rescue four of the eight crew aboard the Union Star; but Trevelyan and his crew went back for more. All radio contact was lost, and the lifeboat from Penlee disappeared.

The next morning, the Union Star was found capsized upon the rocks near Lamorna Cove, and debris from the wrecked lifeboat began to wash ashore; a scene telling a thousand words about the tragedy that had unfolded over cover of darkness

All souls were lost on that terrible night.

We invite you all to join us in remembering those gallant men, and the incomprehensible bravery and courage they showed in the line of duty.

17/12/2024

🏆 NEW AWARD🏆
We are absolutely delighted to have been recognised as the Most Trusted Wildlife Tour Operator in South West England!

Our passionate team work tirelessly to make the experience on our dedicated, WiSe Master accredited wildlife cruises the very best it can possibly be; we are so honoured to have been recognised in this way at the 2025 Acquisition International Global Excellence Awards.