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Synopsis: a gentle 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! Walks planned daily. July and August are excellent months for a variety of birds and cetaceans.

Destination: guests join yacht Zuza around 1530 on Tuesday 31 July 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 cetaceans, basking sharks, raptors and seabirds such as gannets, puffins, guillemots, terns, skuas and razorbills. 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 Monday 6 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 - 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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