Most weeks April through October she is either monitoring
the waters of the west coast of Scotland for whales, dolphins, and
porpoises, or serving as a floating classroom for one of the many Argyll
island primary and secondary schools.
Read the
log below to find out what Silurian and her crew have been up to each
week and all about the whales, dolphins and porpoises they spot!
To find out about the latest marine life sightings spotted elsewhere,
click here.
Date: Thursday 12th April 2007
Anchorage: Tobermory
Position: 56°37’.200 N 006°03’.700 W
Distance Travelled: 32 NM
Final day’s surveying brought us back down to Tobermory in glorious, if slightly wild weather. A brilliant start to the season by volunteers and crew alike!
Susie, Science Officer
Date: Wednesday 11th April 2007Anchorage: South Channel, Loch Moidart
Position: 56° 47’.290N 005° 50’.206W
Distance Travelled: 42 NM
Today saw the highs and lows of Hebridean weather in April, with grey bits, foggy bits, misty bits and a beautiful clear, still evening. Starting off from Isleornsay, we zig-zagged our way south, encountering porpoises, puffins, loads of gulls and leak and potato soup. Observers were stoic in the face of some fairly un-gorgeous conditions during the course of the day. However, in the afternoon, the weather brightened, so by the time we arrived in the utterly lovely south channel of Loch Moidart, we were experiencing a classic west coast evening; calm loch waters reflecting a blue and pink candyfloss sky. After a fine tea, we wandered the shoreline and checked out the big posh house, marvelling at how the other half live. As Duncan scampered about ‘like a mountain goat’, Cormac ‘took more photographs than a Japanese tourist’, all enjoying the stunning beauty of the loch (and the fine workmanship of various aging mechanical objects in the grounds). Weather looking good for tomorrow…
The Silurian crew.
Labels: Silurian's course and sightings 5-13th April 2007
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