Location: West Loch Tarbert, Jura
Position: 55 N 57.920 005 W 54.624
Distance traveled: 51nm

Today’s blog is written by a reluctant Mario, our volunteer from Argentina. He is worried that his English is ‘no good’ but we think he is doing great! So here goes….

‘Today we were starting in fine weather but 1 hour later it turned rough. Therefore was in this moment when we saw the best sighting in the day because we saw basking shark. We went offshore at 9 am from Port Ellen in zigsag between Isle of Islay and Isle of Gigha, In the first watch we saw 1 small basking shark and then a few harbour porpoise the rest the day only could see 1 seal and birds, Alan saw 1 Storm Petrel than with basking shark are rarely species in the zone.
Finally we went up the sound of Islay to Loch Tarbert on Jura, one landscape scenic with cool wind, one part of the group was working on Louise’s meal and the rest took the dinghy we saw red deer and one seal and many herons. The skipper scaled the cliff in order to get an antler for Laura. Alan caught one fish but return it to the water.
Finally, we had a delicious dinner and one nice dessert made by Cormac’.

Earthwatch Volunteer Mario