Feeling Brand New!
What A Day! After a miserable weather day yesterday, preventing all sailings from going out for the day, it was nice to get back out on the water today! And what a day it was! Exciting, exciting news, amazing sightings, and just all round good fun with all of the local wildlife really putting on…
Why Choose Dolphin Spirit?
Making The Right Choice The Moray Firth has an abundance of wonderful wildlife, and an abundance of operators to take you to go and see it. When it comes down to choosing a tour operator for your next Moray Firth adventure, there are a few reasons why Dolphin Spirit may be your first choice. Between…
The Three Amigos
Our Big, Big Three We’re always referring to the “Big 3” here at Dolphin Spirit, in reference to the 3 mammals often spotted out on our trips; otters, seals, and of course, dolphins. Well, while we had two of three spotted today, we certainly had an altogether different Big 3 out on the water, in…
Meet the Team – Brian
Second Super Skipper! I know, a not very creative subtitle, but it’s true! Our Meet the Team showcase continues today with our second skipper so far, Brian! Brian has been with us for the past three years as one of our main Dolphin Spirit skippers. He’s a hard worker and always smiling, so our days are certainly brighter with Brian on board! When it comes to skippering, he’s a dab hand at not just driving, but giving our passengers lessons too, regardless of age! He’s a firm believer in everyone and is always a bright character on the boat, and his wheelhouse door is always open! He’s got keen eyes as well, and always has his binoculars at the ready; he may even give announcements of distant sightings before anyone else has even glimpsed it! Brian likes to make sure…
Showers and a Show
Getting the Timing Juuuuust… Wrong! We had a rather lovely start to the day, with glorious sunshine for the first three sailings of the day. We weren’t the only ones enjoying it either, as the seals were out sunning themselves as soon as even just an inch of mudflat became available! One of our seals…
Sunshine and Seals
A Beautiful Day and Lovely Encounters Another gorgeous, mirror-calm day out on the firth had us puffing our chests in hopeful anticipation of another successful day of sightings aboard Dolphin Spirit and Mischief. We were blessed with plenty of visits from seals – mostly harbour seals – around Alturlie Point and Meikle Mee throughout the…
Good Morning!
Sightings Worth Celebrating Today’s morning sailings for Mischief and Spirit were very successful! The RIB of course set out first, trundling past the river and bridge and out towards Munlochy Bay. It was here that Mischief encountered our first dolphins of the day, before heading up to Chanonry in the hopes of finding more. When…
Meet the Team – Stuart
The Original Super Skipper! We’ve been through the office, we’ve surveyed all the guides, all we have left are the skippers! Today we’re starting with Stuart, one of our longest running skippers. The only full-time skipper, working all through winter too, Stuart is a dab hand when it comes to caring for the Dolphin Spirit….
Found Him!
Cheeky Charlie Arrives in Style! If you’ve been following our blog, you will remember that yesterday Kesslet had a different visitor with her in the Kessock Channel, Scoopy. After anticipating that Charlie must have been at Chanonry Point with the others then, and finding out that he wasn’t, we could only wonder where he’d got…
Dolphins, and Otters, and Seals, Oh My!
A Mighty Sightings Day! Today started off with a little sunshine and some pleasant wind, but it quickly turned back to its usual grey with a fairly oppressive heat for most of the day. The weather certainly didn’t put us off going out though, and both Dolphin Spirit and Mischief got out for all of…