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Wahoo Easter started with a massive "Fishing Bonanza" we filled a box full of Cod, Pollack, Coley, Mackerel and Bib aboard "Atlantic Diver"… the biggest and fastest boat in Newquay harbour. What an awesome day fish flowed faster than the Easter Eggs!! All sustainable caught and taken home for a delicious Fish Supper….we certainly earned our "Cornwall Tourism Award GOLD for Wildlife and Marine attraction of the year 2014-2015 " yesterday!!

Fun and laughter filled the boat as a school reunion trip shared great banter as competetive angling skills played out during their 4 hour newquay fishing trip. Fish was washed down with the  free Chocolate Easter Egg that all of our passengers received on Easter Sunday's Trips.

Atlantic Explorer was further along the the coast by Padstow and saw a pod of Common Dolphins bow riding the boat and talking to each other with clicks and echolocating as they frollacked in front of our happy passengers. 

Dolphins galore on Easter Day as Common Dolphins Bow ride “Atlantic Explorer” and let out excited clicks and sounds as they communocate with each other when the boat stopped….absolutely wonderful. We have been seeing lots of dolphins on our trips throughout the winter like this Bottle Nose Dolphin above  but the becalmed Easter weather is allowing us to spot them more easily. Trips are running daily at the present .This is some of Chris’s iphone video

I LOVE THIS JOB!!!

Wow…what a stunning day yesterday…most of the Newquay Harbour boats were out on trips which made for a frenzy of activity across  Newquay Bay! A visiting German couple were pleasantly suprised at the subtropical conditions we were experiencing..( weren’t we all)  as they boarded ready to enjoy the spoils of the ocean during one of our Newquay Sea Safaris. Seals ,Sunfish, Gannets, Cormorants, Shags ,Manx Shearwaters, Oyster Catchers, Harbour Porpoise and amazily..Common Dolphins hunting for Sprats surrounded the boat whilst a few porpoised infront of us…spectacular viewing. We were able to get some amazing pics for photo ID. Dusk signalled time to return to Harbour..reluctant but HAPPY

Dolphins galore at the moment….we have had a few spectacular dolphin viewing days. Three large Bottlenose Dolphins have been playing with the boat for the past few days, using their huge tail flukes to nudge the boat when we are stopped , conducting our marine wildlife talks during our sea safaris. Then jumping and twisting out of the water backwards in an amazing acrobatic display. Even our lucky divers this week have been treated to Common Dolphins circling the boat again whilst we were stopped waiting for divers to resurface. The Common Dolphin is much smaller than the Bottlenose Dolphin and has a beautiful hourglass pattern as seen in one of the pics here. They are very playful and love to compete with each other when riding the bow wave of Atlantic Diver

Acrobatic Short Beaked Common Dolphins swam around the divers today as they decompressed and slowly resurfaced. The beautiful and inquisitive cetacean swam from one group of divers to another as they amused themselves “human watching!” in the glorious July sunshine. The guys were just completing a dive on the HMS Rewa a World War One hospital ship wreck featured on the documentary made with Atlantic Diver….  ” Deep Wreck Mysteries”.This is the time of year the dolphins are giving birth or breeding so we have been having unbelievably fantastic sightings of them almost daily….fin tastic. Our last 2 blue shark cage diving saw a couple of pods feeding within a mile of our chum slick!! Our sea safari trips  are seeing the kittiwake chicks hatch out, seals hauled out , diving gannets and the porpoising dolphins. We were also lucky enough yesterday to also see 2 harbour porpoise…wow what a day to remember…dolphin heaven

I Loved this pic so much I've made it available for desk use (non commercial use please)

Experts are concerned about the number of by -caught Dolphins being washed up onto our beaches dead after becoming caught in fishing nets. Sadly often Cetacean, Seals and Turtles become entangled in fishing gear and die from Asphyxiation. The Cornwall Wildlife Trust are trialing Pingers which are devices that attach to the gear and emit sounds audible to the cetacean, in the hope that it will deter them from the net. Members of the public can report sightings of dead Dolphins, seals etc to  their hotline number:0845 201 2626 .For more info please click the link below:

 http://www.cwtstrandings.org/

To see the news article please click below link:

http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/

To learn more about the pingers, click here: http://www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/conservation/livingseas/dolphin_pinger_trial

We can help by trying to purchase our fish supplies from dolphin friendly sources. It was really sad when Chris and I recorded the details of this little baby…It still had its soft baby dorsal fin , which told us it was a neonate.

Atlantic Diver was out on a Dive trip with Somerset divers on Sunday and came across this amazing Scene of Common Dolphins Tail Walking during what appeared to be a hunting strategy. The story has been picked up by localpress as it is such an unusual thing to see.

http://www.cornishguardian.co.uk/Dolphin-dazzles-sea-lovers-Newquay-coast-tail/story-19250066-detail/story.html

It was a spectacular day and both "Atlkantic Diver" and "Atantic Explorer" were out the the Flaming June sunshine. The sea was becalmed so we saw all manner of birds including a Puffin, a pod of 20 Common Dolphins, A Harbour Porpoise and 8 Grey Seals

Off shore there were lots of harmless and beautiful Moon Jellyfish which means there is plenty of plankton about …great for potential Basking Shark sightings!! Here of some of the Dolphin and seal pics I'd like to share with you….

Busy week this week and lucky us dolphins seen out on boats most days. Whilst out doing some C-Pod retrieval ..a device which carries out cetacean acoustic monitoring…and a bird survey…who should pop up on "Atlantic Diver's "starboard side but a beautiful Common Dolphin. They were 7 of them casually hunting right next to the boat…What a huge distraction from our bird survey..wow..they porpoised out of the sea a couple of times , crashing and belly flopping back down .totally awesome.

Graham one of our Divers, Dropped his line over the side and caught this bumper catch in the space of a few minutes…bar-b-que here we come