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Synopsis: a gentle cruise where we take advantage of the natural shelter of the islands. Walks planned daily. June is a great month for large numbers of seabirds, flowers and early cetaceans.

Destination: guests join motor vessel Hjalmar Bjorge at around 1600 on Friday 18 June in Oban. Our departure shortly thereafter will see us on anchor for our first evening meal aboard. 

The itinerary is dependent on weather - balancing shelter with reaching our preferred destinations - but may include, for example, some of the following places: Mull, the Small Isles (Rum, Canna, Eigg and Muck), the west coast of Skye, the Treshnish Isles, Gometra, Iona, Coll and the Garvellachs, etc. Expect sea and golden eagles, seabirds and hopefully some early cetaceans.

On the final day we head back into Oban for your departure after brunch or lunch on Thursday 24 June. 

Sightings and findings from previous similar cruises: Arctic skua - Arctic tern - basking shark - black guillemot - bottlenose dolphins - buzzard - chiff chaff - common butterwort (insectivorous) - common dolphins - common tern - cormorant - corncrake - dunnock - eider duck - fulmars - gannets - golden eagles - great northern diver - great skuas - guillemots - hare - heron - jackdaw - kittiwakes - Leach's petrels - long-tailed skua - Manx shearwaters - minke whales - orchids - otters - oystercatcher - peregrine - pied wagtail - pomarine skuas - porpoise - puffins - razorbills - red deer - red-throated divers - rock pipit - sea eagles - seals - shag - shelduck - short-eared owl - storm petrels - sundew (insectivorous) - swallow - thrift - wheatear - white-beaked dolphins - wren - yellow flag iris

Please Note: The above map indicates an area within which we are likely to travel. Weather and the interests and abilities of guests influence the skipper's final decision. Sightings and findings are examples from previous similar cruises; the list is neither exhaustive nor guaranteed.

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