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Synopsis: a gentle early season cruise combining sailing and power where we take advantage of the natural shelter of the islands - ideal for trying out that "wind in your hair" experience! Seabirds, eagles and early cetaceans. Daily walks.

Destination: guests join yacht Zuza around 1530 on Saturday 12 May at Oban Yachts, Kerrera. Our departure shortly thereafter will see us on anchor for our first evening meal aboard. 

The itinerary is dependent on weather, balancing shelter with sailing to our preferred destinations. This cruise will be based on the latest local sightings and will utilise our unique local knowledge to view raptors and seabirds such as gannets, puffins, guillemots, terns, skuas and razorbills. Hopefully there will be some early cetaceans around too including minke whales, common dolphin, porpoise as well as basking sharks. Destinations 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, Coll, Gunna and Tiree. We'll also try to include a voyage along the south coast of Mull to view some amazing raptor locations.

On the final day we will return to Oban having brunch there before your departure on Friday 18 May. 

Sightings and findings from previous similar cruises: Arctic skua - black guillemot - bluebells - bottlenose dolphins - brown hare - buzzard - common dolphins - cormorant - corncrake - curlew - dunlin - dunnock - eider duck - emperor moth - finches (various) - fossils - fulmars - gannet - golden eagles - golden plover - great northern diver - great skua - guillemots - heron - jackdaw - kestrel - kittiwake - lapwing - linnet - long-tailed skua - Manx shearwaters - meadow pipit - merganser - minke whales - orchids - otters - oystercatcher - peregrine - pied wagtail - pomarine skua - porpoise - puffins - raven - razorbill - red-breasted merganser - red deer - redshank - red-throated divers - ring ouzel - ringed plover - robin - rock pipit - rook - roseate tern - sanderling - sandpiper - sea eagles - seals - shag - shelduck - skylark - short-eared owl - shoveller - snipe - stonechat - swallow - swan - tern - turnstone - wheatear - whimbrel - wild goats - woodpecker - wren

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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