Seals Ignore Wales Lockdown
Something for those of you missing the sights and sounds of the sea. We had some fabulous walks on the coastal path just before lockdown – dog boss is still snoozing it all off! This young pup was a huge … Read More
Something for those of you missing the sights and sounds of the sea. We had some fabulous walks on the coastal path just before lockdown – dog boss is still snoozing it all off! This young pup was a huge … Read More
Heading out to Grassholm in the afternoon autumnal sunshine can be pretty amazing – it’s like a sunlit GPS – drive along the line of sunshine. This was taken late October when we took a team of archaeologists from the … Read More
This season we’ve been so very conscious of community support, from neighbours cheerfully teasing, “Get your boat in the water!” as they drove past Shearwater’s field, to the lovely people at St Davids Escape Room who lent us their tractor … Read More
Is it possible to run an environmentally friendly boat company? What is possible is to run a company as responsibly as possible. There are some obvious things to think about: fuel usage, potential wildlife disturbance, recycling, the environmental cost of … Read More
This season brought not one but two major storms – Ophelia and Brian – which devastated the wildlife. Both storms were predicted well in advance so we decided to get Shearwater ashore before they hit. Sea conditions at Porthgain were … Read More
Sky TV joined our trip with the RSPB to Grassholm this year to film the gannet rescue as part of Sky’s Ocean Rescue campaign. Photo courtesy of Sky reporter Thomas Moore. Grassholm’s craggy coastline isn’t the friendliest spot for landing so … Read More
This is how we all like to see dolphins and indeed how we usually come across them – they simply come and join us in open water when they feel like it, bow riding or playing in the wake. However, … Read More
Sunfish are by no means common visitors to Ramsey but we do see them quite regularly in the summer months. They eat jellyfish so our waters provide them with good feeding opportunities if they’re healthy enough to make the most … Read More
We never quite know what the day will bring. Tim and Charlie had great conditions yesterday morning for landing the RSPB on Grassholm for gannet monitoring. En route home they stopped to pick up some floating rope and were joined … Read More
Tim and Charlie had an unexpected bonus this morning after taking scientists to Grassholm to monitor the gannets. They came across an 8 foot basking shark off the south end of Ramsey as they were calling the office. I’m not … Read More