If anyone wants a wildlife holiday in the UK then Gairloch has to be one of the best places, if not the best place to go.
A 4 day trip there recently got me the following:
A 4 hour cruise on Orca 1 with Hebridean Whale Cruises:
- great views of an Otter as we were waiting to get on the boat
- an 8 metre Basking Shark which was as scary as it was fascinating
- 5 Minke Whales lunge feeding around the boat at the same time a long with 100s of seabirds in a huge feeding frenzy
- lots of Porpoise
- thousands and thousands of nesting seabirds at the Shiant Isles including maybe 50,000 Puffins and great views of 2 White Tailed Eagles
- 3 very sociable pods of Common Dolphins
- great views of European Storm Petrols
From the Millcroft Hotel where I stayed (my room looked out over Loch Gairloch) I saw Otters, a pod of around 100 Common Dolphins which seem to be feeding in the Loch almost daily at the minute, Porpoise and several feeding frenzies of seabirds.
We did 3 more trips with Hebridean Whale Cruises all which got us the Cetacean Hatrick - Minke Whales(one which came to investigate us and nearly came onto the boat), Dolphins & Porpoise.
It was the holiday of a lifetime for me and my family and I would definitely reccomendation it. Even my mum spotter a Minke Whale which was a 1st for her.
Chris
A 4 day trip there recently got me the following:
A 4 hour cruise on Orca 1 with Hebridean Whale Cruises:
- great views of an Otter as we were waiting to get on the boat
- an 8 metre Basking Shark which was as scary as it was fascinating
- 5 Minke Whales lunge feeding around the boat at the same time a long with 100s of seabirds in a huge feeding frenzy
- lots of Porpoise
- thousands and thousands of nesting seabirds at the Shiant Isles including maybe 50,000 Puffins and great views of 2 White Tailed Eagles
- 3 very sociable pods of Common Dolphins
- great views of European Storm Petrols
From the Millcroft Hotel where I stayed (my room looked out over Loch Gairloch) I saw Otters, a pod of around 100 Common Dolphins which seem to be feeding in the Loch almost daily at the minute, Porpoise and several feeding frenzies of seabirds.
We did 3 more trips with Hebridean Whale Cruises all which got us the Cetacean Hatrick - Minke Whales(one which came to investigate us and nearly came onto the boat), Dolphins & Porpoise.
It was the holiday of a lifetime for me and my family and I would definitely reccomendation it. Even my mum spotter a Minke Whale which was a 1st for her.
Chris