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Synopsis: an adventurous expedition enabling guests to spend a few whole days walking on Hirta, the main island of St Kilda (with packed lunch provided). Tour of the other islands and stacs. Visit to at least one other remote island. Huge numbers of seabirds plus cetaceans.

Destination: guests arrive at Oban for around 1600 with vessel Hjalmar Bjorge departing in the late afternoon of Saturday 21 July for Tobermory, Canna or Neist Point.

An early start the next day should, weather permitting, ensure arrival at the remote archipelago of St Kilda by the second day. In exceptional circumstances an overnight crossing may be made directly from our home port.

Again, weather permitting up to three days or so will be spent here, exploring the main island of Hirta (with picnic lunches provided for all day walks) and viewing the other islands and stacks in the group – Dun, Soay, Stac Lee, Boreray and Stac an Armin. The journey back will be less intense with time ashore at perhaps Mingulay and Tobermory on the Isle of Mull. We arrive back in Oban for your departure after lunch on Friday 27 July. 

Sightings and findings from previous similar cruises: basking shark - black guillemot - bottlenose dolphins - buzzard - common dolphins - cormorant - fulmars - gannets - golden eagle - great northern diver - great skuas - guillemots - hairy caterpillar - humpback whale (uncertain) - kittiwakes - Leach's petrels - long-tailed skua - Manx shearwaters - minke whales - oystercatchers - peregrine - pomarine skua - porpoise - puffins - razorbills - red-throated divers - Risso's dolphins - sea eagle - seals - Soay sheep - St Kilda mouse - St Kilda wren - storm petrels - sunfish - terns - whale vertebrae found on beach - white-beaked dolphins

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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I hadn't expected it to be such a great 'food' experience." 

Stephen C, Glasgow 

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Northern Light Charters, Achnacraig, Achindarroch, Duror of Appin, Argyll PA38 4BS | Tel: +44 (0)1631 740595

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