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Message: <blockquote data-quote="davidearlgray" data-source="post: 1274653" data-attributes="member: 25441">Hi all, being a veteran of Biscay for over ten years, I would say that Dominique is looking through rose tinted specs about UP trips, as like Bobtag I was on the first trip in 2006.The trip wasn't great for seabirds but was good for Cetaceans due to the calm weather conditions.Communications were not great as quite a few things were claimed but seemed to be a tad stringy to say the least!Getting back to the Pride of Bilbao, it might have a load of drunken Brits on it but if you put the time on deck you will see a load of great sightings. For example over the last ten years I have seen Blue Whale, 10+ Little Shearwaters, 6 Long tailed Skuas, Hundreds of Great and Cory's Shearwaters, 60+ Cuvier's beaked Whales, 5+ Northern Bottlenose Whales and thousands of Dolphins just to name a few.As Hugh said UP had only ever done three trips out there and his Company has done 350 so I know which company has the more experience on what's about in Biscay.Any way rant over!Cheers,Dave.<a href="http://davidearlgray.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://davidearlgray.blogspot.com</a></blockquote>