Wildlife Trips take place on the following dates:
Saturday 21st April - departs Penzance 0915 departs St. Mary's 1630
Saturday 12th May - departs Penzance 0915 departs St. Mary's 1630
Saturday 9th June - departs Penzance 0630 departs St. Mary's 1700
Saturday 18th August - departs Penzance 1030 departs St. Mary's 1500
Saturday 15th September - departs Penzance 0915 departs St. Mary's 1630
Saturday 13th October - departs Penzance 0915 departs St. Mary's 1630
To book your ticket please call 0845 710 5555 and quote WL001 to qualify for the discounted price of £30 return.
Please see www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/whatson or www.ios-travel.co.uk for more details.
An amazing amount of wildlife can be seen from the deck of the passenger ferry on route between Penzance and St Mary’s, especially on calm days. By travelling with Scillonian III passengers may have the chance to sight various dolphin species, porpoises, minke whales, basking sharks and sunfish from the vessel as well as a good selection of seabirds.
Paul Semmens is our enthusiastic on board guide. Paul says “The Scillonian is an amazing platform to observe marine life and seabirds with most trips seeing cetaceans. So far this year we have recorded bottlenose and common dolphins, as well as harbour porpoises. Hopefully we should start to see basking sharks soon as they are now beginning to arrive in our waters. Lots of manx shearwaters are now congregating offshore for the summer joining the gannets and occasionally we have seen great skuas.”
Jackie Hayman, Marketing Manager for Isles of Scilly Steamship Travel, says “The Scillonian III top deck provides an excellent vantage point for wildlife spotting and Paul is very good at finding something of interest on almost every trip. We also have spotter sheets onboard to assist new comers and hope to gather even more vital information about the species in our local waters this year and are please to be able to assist with the collection of data. ”
