Anchorage: East of Erraide
Position: 56° 17.3 North - 6° 21.4 West
Distance surveyed: 44.0 nmi

Busy day today with a lot of sightings !! We sailed off early enough from our last night’s dock in Scalasaig and in the first shift we had a seal next to us then later on 2 porpoises visually and at least 15 on acoustic monitoring throughout the day. The weather was nice (even for Scottish standards!!) and were constantly on 5 to 7 knots but sails down since we were going against wind. During the day, we saw again a lot of birds and amazing landscape on the passing by outside Jura, Colonsay and back in to Erraide.

Once we arrived at Erraide, Peter now my new temp sous – chef helped me prepare some Greek cuisine. While this was stewing hapilly, we got on the dingy and went on shore to check the view and spotted a couple of curious seals that are outside the Silurian as I write this. After the dinner (hope they liked it ….) we had an amazing presentation on audio identification hearing cetaceans sounds by Marjolaine. Everyone crashed after that with whatever energy it was left but very content!!

Stelios – Greece

Picture: from left to right Rob (First mate and all around nice guy) with seadogs Jonathan , Gyal, Maria-Theresa, Stelios. Guess who had sightings….)