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Synopsis: a gentle cruise where we take advantage of the natural shelter of the islands. Walks planned daily. This is a great time of year for a variety of seabirds, raptors and cetaceans.

Destination: guests join motor vessel Hjalmar Bjorge around 1600 on Saturday 30 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, lots of different seabirds and hopefully a variety of cetaceans.

On the final day we head back into Oban for your departure after brunch or lunch on Friday 6 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 - humpback whale (uncertain) - kittiwakes - Leach's petrels - Manx shearwaters - minke whales - otters - oystercatchers - porpoise - puffins - razorbills - Risso's dolphins - sea eagle - seals - storm petrels - stunning sunsets - 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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