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On board Silurian
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. If you would like to send the crew an e-mail with your questions click here. Click here to view the Silurian Log archive. 18th June 2007
Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th were spent travelling to Port Ellen, Islay from Tobermory. After an excellent overnight stay anchored off Oronsay, we were joined on Sunday by Sir Maxwell Macleod (HWDT Director), Jack Matthews (HWDT Chairman), Robin Harper (leader of the Scottish Green party), Melanie Reid (journalist with the Times) and Eden Kinneard.
Today, Monday, was busy with Islay High School standard grade biology students. Here are some thoughts about the morning session, from the students... ‘One thing I enjoyed today was learning about all of the equipment that is used on the boat’ Anon ‘Today was good because we got out of school and learned new things’ Laura ‘Today was good because we learned about all the different types of Crabs, Starfish and Plankton’ Ailsa Murray. ‘Today was great because we got to learn about what the people on Silurian get to do’ Eilidh Campbell ‘Something I learnt was how to tell if a crab is male or female’ Anon ‘One thing I enjoyed was listening to the noises that the whales and dolphins make’ Rebecca Woodrow ‘I liked when we all went down and listened to the different whale noises’ Rhona Mac Arthur ‘I thought today was good because I learned lots of new things, we saw plankton and listened to whale and dolphin noises. It was good fun.’ Sarah Murray ‘Today was very different and fun. I enjoyed it.’ Lisa Matthews ...and some more from those aboard this afternoon... ‘I saw ciliate and I was the only one. It was a single celled animal plankton’ Andrew Duncan Mackay Morris ‘I liked playing eye spy with my binoculers’ Shannon McGregor ‘The thing I enjoyed today was learning about different creatures and the different sounds animals make’ Corinne McCrory ‘I thought today was fandabiodosie’ John MacNeill ‘One thing I enjoyed today was looking at plankton on the microscopes’ John MacPhee ‘I enjoyed listening to the sounds of the ocean animals on the hydraphone’ Keith ‘The best thing on the Silurian was learning about what lives in the seas and all the different types. It was fantastic.’ Kirsty Silurian Log Archives
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