Sealife Adventures

24/01/2025

Sitting in the dark and the wind howling outside (but still with 4G) my thoughts are turning to exciting boat trips in the summer. You can still book at 2024 prices for another couple of days.

19/12/2024

No need to panic if you are still looking for the perfect present for that special person! We have you sorted! A Sealife Adventure Gift Voucher has no end date and will have the recipient jumping with joy just like this dolphin that you might see on one of our trips (he'll have ditched the hat by the summer!) Click here https://sealife-adventures.com/gift-vouchers/

14/12/2024

Ok people focus!! Not long now. If you haven't got that perfect present we can help you out! A Sealife Adventures Gift voucher will make someone in your life very happy. Something to look forward to in 2025, a great day out!
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13/12/2024

We have extended the time that you can book any trip in 2025 at 2024 prices but the clock is ticking.......

Seize the moo-ment!!

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02/12/2024

SPECIAL OFFER! Book on any trip in 2025 before 16th December and get it at 2024 prices.
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02/12/2024

Are you looking for the perfect present? Cast an eagle eye at our website for gift vouchers.
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22/10/2024

Pup & Mum and a very tired stag after the rut! Still loads of wildlife out there in lovely autumn light!

30/08/2024

Came back in lovely evening sunshine and saw these two really close to Balvicar just round the corner from the pontoon! This male Osprey will soon be heading back to West Africa. The Sea Eagle is really living up to its Gaelic Name Iolaire sùil na grèine meaning the bird with the sunlit eye.

23/07/2024

This is a really important petition, please take a moment to sign. Wrasse are very important in keeping rocky reefs healthy, without them predating on urchins the urchins flourish and you end up with barren areas. This is an unintended but devastating consequence of fishing for wrasse. Wrasse are slow growing and do not reproduce in huge numbers, once they are gone from an area they will not repopulate very quickly. Please sign.

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to develop and introduce a statutory Fisheries Management Plan focussed on protecting wild wrasse stocks in Scottish waters, beginning with a data-collection exercise and introduction of precautionary fishery management measures ahea...

19/07/2024

We have been seeing Minke whales on quite a lot of our trips recently. Here is one that we think is quite young and perhaps a larger one coming up in the middle of a baitball. Its always incredible to see these very rare cetaceans close to the boat!

14/07/2024

Our guests were thrilled to see this spring & summer visitor yesterday. Did you know that Ospreys can reverse their outer toe. Usually, they have three pointing forward and one back when sitting in a tree, but, when they grab a slippery fit, they can hold onto it with two toes pointing forward and two back!!

13/07/2024

It's growing up time all around us now! Here are two Sea Eagle sibling chicks just hanging out together having recently fledged! They are still getting food brought to them by their parents but soon we will see them being taught how to hunt for themselves. Pic taken with 600mm lens and heavily cropped so that we don't cause disturbance.

25/06/2024

Pups, pups, pups! Common Seal pups are starting to arrive! Did you know that common seal pups shed their downy coat in the womb so that they are all ready to go swimming pretty soon after they are born. They will stay with their mothers for a few weeks, feeding on very rich milk (dribbly one in the pic) and learning to fish!

17/06/2024

Look who we came across today.... summer visitors. Manx shearwaters have come all the way from South America to breed in burrows here on offshore islands. After breeding they will head back to South America.
And a wee puffin, they also nest in burrows. Did you know that the German name for puffin is Papageitaucher which translates as diving parrot!
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We've had a few days off with David diving but now back to sharing this lovely area and wildlife with our guests.

16/06/2024

Big commotion on one of the little islands made us take the boat closer. All the gulls which were resting on the island were up and harassing a Sea Eagle which must have been trying to catch a seabird on the island. The result was that the gulls chased off the Eagle which left empty taloned, it then flew really close to the boat. Great sight for our guests.

14/06/2024

Great to see terns back nesting and feeding! Did you know that terns made an unfortunate appearance in women's fashion in the late 19th century. Feathers and sometimes entire terns were mounted on women's hats! Fortunately this practice was outlawed and concern over the use of feathers of rare birds being used on hats was one of the driving forces behind the setting up of the RSPB!

07/06/2024

It's the weekend! Time to kick back and relax, have a good one!