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Synopsis: a varied cruise aiming to deliver an interesting mix of Hebridean islands including - weather permitting - St Kilda. Visit a wide range of destinations for daily walks and a good variety of seabirds and cetaceans.

Destination: guests join motor vessel Hjalmar Bjorge at around 1600 on Wednesday 1 August 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 our target destinations - but may include, for example, some of the following islands: Mull, the Small Isles (Rum, Canna, Eigg and Muck), Skye, Coll and Tiree in the Inner Hebrides. In the Outer Hebrides possibilities include the Shiants, Eriskay, Barra Head, Mingulay, Vatersay, Taransay, Scarp and the Monach Islands, etc. If weather permits we'll aim for St Kilda but this is not guaranteed. Occasionally the Flannan Islands may be visited. Expect sea and golden eagles, cetaceans and lots of seabirds such as gannets, guillemots and razorbills although puffins have often left by now.

On the final day we head back into Oban for your departure after brunch or lunch on Friday 10 August.

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 - osprey - otters - oystercatcher - peregrine - pied wagtail - pomarine skuas - porpoise - puffins - razorbills - red deer - red-throated divers - Risso's dolphins - rock pipit - sea eagles - seals - shag - shelduck - short-eared owl - Soay sheep - St Kilda mouse - St Kilda wren - storm petrels - sundew (insectivorous) - sunfish - swallow - terns - 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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